California Career
After his studies in France, Schreiner returned to his position as organist in Salt Lake City from July 1926 to January 1927. He then went to southern California to earn enough money to pay off his debts and be in a position to marry Margaret Lyman. He served as organist at Grauman's Metropolitian Theatre. The following June he returned to Salt Lake City and he and Margaret married, after which they returned to southern California. During this time period Schreiner also worked as an organist at the Barker Brother's Department Store.
In August 1928 Schreiner once again returned to Salt Lake City, where he resumed his position as Tabernacle Organist and also served as the chief organist at the Capitol Theatre.
In 1929 Schreiner returned to southern California in an attempt to overcome his influenza. He was appointed chief organist of the First Methodist Episcopal Church in Los Angeles. Schreiner returned to Salt Lake and the tabernacle in the summer of 1930 but in September 1930 he began a term as the organist of the University of California at Los Angeles. Through 1939 Schreiner retained this position at UCLA and would return to the Tabernacle for summers. He also was a member of the Music Committee of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints at this point. Schreiner was also director of music for the Jewish Wilshire Boulevard Temple during this time. By 1930 Schreiner's reputation as an organist was great enough he was recruited on occasion to inaugurate new organs.
Despite his major commitments to music Schreiner did also serve in other ways. He was a member of the High Council of the Hollywood Stake. Some of his children followed him into music, one beginning to serve as a Sunday School organist at age seven.
In September 1936 Schreiner was made the stake music director of the Hollywood Stake.
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