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...without significant input from the Laguna people themselves. Although the BIA must by law act in the best interest of the tribes whose land it holds in trust, the Bureau actually exposed the Lagunas to a host of health dangers...
...challenge in a more circumscribed age. When a director broke the modesty barrier by offering to pay nude models $10 a night, critics objected to this violation of volunteerist esprit de corps. Nowadays women and men of all ages are only too willing to bare all for Laguna. Indeed, a 1969 nude volunteer named Cathe Mennen is enshrined as a heroine of the pageant. While she posed in a statuary group of Pygmalion and Galatea, a pigeon mistook her for the real thing and attempted a landing. Slipping on her gooey body makeup, the bird dug in its claws...
Though it is now the centerpiece of the Festival of Arts, the pageant started almost as an afterthought. The festival itself was launched in 1932 to publicize the work of Depression-hit Laguna artists. A year later, Painter John Hinchman hit on the idea of staging tableaux vivants, similar to the scenes mounted on Sundays in some Victorian parlors. The "stage" was a roped-off section of a street. As Salome holding the severed head of John the Baptist, Margo Goddard, now 71, became the pageant's first nude in 1936 but swore she would never pose again after...
...Director Eytchison points out, "we've done Matisse and Picasso. Still, after you've tried it, you have to ask yourself what the point of the whole pageant is. After all,, pur purpose is to provide an enjoyable evening of theater." While many works of art meet Laguna's requirements in terms of style and content, they prove technically impossible to reproduce. For example, Eytchison has found that Toulouse-Lautrec's paintings have too much distance between figures in foreground and background for realistic reproduction: "In order to do a cancan scene and have real women...
...partially explicable by the town's lack of night life. The volunteers, from the mostly middle-aged women who do the men's makeup (their yellow T shirts read: WE KNOW WHERE TO PUT IT) to the lowliest errand boys, are plainly basking in the glory of Laguna's premiere event. Says Judy Stanton, 46, who for 13 years has rushed 50 miles from her nursing job in Downey to take part in the pageant: "I never get sick of it. There are new pictures every year. You see old friends and meet new people." Volunteer Jackie...