Word: batons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...after Nkrumah's conciliatory broadcast last week, Edusei promised a toga-clad, hallelujah-singing crowd at Cape Coast that by next month Parliament would vote that "anybody who gives a speech to the discredit of the government will be removed to a detention camp." Shaking his leopard-spotted baton, he shouted: "I love power, and so Prime Minister Nkrumah has given me the most powerful of all the ministries. I am going to use it sternly and strongly, no matter what." When the crowd whooped gleefully, "We like it. we like it!", Edusei responded: "Call us Communists...
...Baton Rouge...
...Baton Rouge...
...general aim is to transport the audience back to the late 17th century as fully as possible. The outdoor theatre at Wellesley serves well as a part of the Versailles gardens where such court plays were often presented. The show properly begins with the traditional trois coups de baton. And the audience is made to rise at the start while King Louis himself and his retinue march in to solemn music, take their places, and hear Moliere dedicate the performance to His Gracious Majesty...
...scenes instrumentalists and vocalists for offstage choruses and flourishes. On a lofty bridge in the flies, 50 singers, an extra conductor, five harpists and 15 brass instrumentalists waited tensely for musical cues relayed to them on monitor screens from a TV camera focused on Conductor Kubelik's baton.* On the teeming stage below were the principal singers plus 100 in the chorus and ballet, plus 48 supers. "It's all so huge," said harassed Director Gielgud, "it's like trooping the colors...