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...celebrated artists' colony before soaring real estate prices displaced the easel set, Southern California's Laguna Beach is better known these days for a kind of living Louvre. Each July and August, as the crowning glory of its 50-year-old Festival of the Arts, the town mounts a Pageant of the Masters: a display of tableaux vivants reproducing famous artworks with human figures in a 12-ft. by 30-ft. picture frame onstage. The show runs slightly more than two hours at an outdoor theater called the Irvine Bowl...
...this trompe l'oeil in reverse is a year-round obsession. With the help of 20 full-time backstage professionals, 500 volunteers put on the nightly exhibitions, which lure 300,000 viewers and will gross $1.8 million this year. The festival distributes $100,000 in art scholarships to Laguna High School graduates...
...tableaux came down from Mount Parnassus. Some 4,500 dues-paying ($5 a year) members of the festival organization have the right to buy 16 tickets at up to $20 each. "The pageant is a chance for us to be part of something creative," explains Clem Troy Sr., a Laguna-based engineer, who, with his wife and three children, has taken part in four of them. "I'm no artist myself, but the pageant is part of this country's culture...
...artistic director, Glen Eytchison, 27, is an intense veteran of Southern California repertory theater, whose appointment four years ago stirred premonitions that he would emphasize avant-garde art, even (Pollock forbid!) abstract expressionists. Not to worry. "You have to understand the people of Laguna," Eytchison allows. "I am concerned with retaining their tradition. Of course, the show has to be bigger and better every year, but you can only stretch so far." This year's edition stretches to 24 tableaux, each of which is shown for about 90 seconds. They range from classics like Degas' Dancers Practicing...
...teams. We're further hampered, however, by the tradition of top scholar-athletes in a given Black community heading to schools like U.S.C. In short, our recruiting success ratio for the athletes in such schools has never been high--but not for lack of alumni effort. Jay Murley '57 Laguna Beach, Calif...