Turns out, while Thomas saw to the repair, Marta wandered - and don’t we love wandering - saw a bunch of buildings, which included a hotel built in the 1920s by the Pacific Coast Borax mining company and a large structure that miners had used as a gathering place called Corkhill Hall. Five years later, on the way to a ballet gig, the travel trailer they were towing blew a tire out in Death Valley, and the only place where it could be repaired was in Death Valley Junction. In 1962, she met the man who would become her husband, Thomas Williams.
Marta started touring the United States with her one-woman show, performing all the great ballets in small theatres across this great country. She also performed and only retired in February 2012 at the age of 88.“I wanted the freedom to express myself,” Marta explained in "Dust Devil." Marta never left! She renamed the theatre Amargosa Opera House and spent the next decades, restoring, painting and refining. Walking down the long colonnade of what was known as the Amargosa Hotel, she was hypnotically drawn around the corner where she discovered the largest building in the row, a theatre. They awoke one morning to a flat tire and while her husband attended to the tire at the gas station in Death Valley Junction, Marta began to explore the old adobe buildings of the company town. They decided to spend a week's vacation camping in Death Valley. Marta and her husband found themselves in California, in the spring of 1967, after months of touring. Which is exactly what she did and she took her solo show on the road.
This woman was Marta Becket and she really wanted to dance her own dances, design her own costumes and create her own show. She appeared in "Showboat", "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" and "A Wonderful Town". Meanwhile, a young woman danced at Radio City Music Hall and on Broadway.
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