Word: pageant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...presented tonight by the Dramatic Club in the Germanic Museum with a Cathedral arch and and later for a background and a "dim, religious light" supplied by electricity carefully concealed off-stage. The limited number who will be fortunate enough to see the "Lutterworh Christmas Play" and the "Pageant of the Shearmen and Taylors" will find themselves as nearly in the atmosphere of the original miracles as it is possible for ingenuity and modern appliances to reproduce. It is an experiment well worth trying; what the Glee Club has done for music, the Dramatic Club...
...Harvard Dramatic Club will give two miracle plays, "The Lutterworth Christmas Play" of the St. George Cycle and the "Pageant of the Shearmen and Taylors" of the Coventry Cycle, in performances this evening and tomorrow at 7.15 and 9.00 in the Germanic Museum. On account of the smallness of the room two presentations are to be made each night...
Tonight at 6.30 o'clock in the club library, Marion Craig Wentworth, the well-known authoress of "War Brides" will read from her new pageant play "The Dreamers", a peace drama which is to be produced in January at the Boston Opera House. This reading is not a part of the regular schedule of speakers of the Liberal Club. The purpose of the reading is to interest people in the coming pageant, and to find two persons who will be willing to take part in it. The meeting will therefore be open to the public...
...Harvard Dramatic Club will make a departure this year from its usual line of productions when it presents on the evenings of December 19 and 20 two ancient English Miracle Plays, "The Pageant of the Shearman and Taylors", both from "The Coventry Cycle". These two plays will be supplemented by several scenes from "The Salutation and Conception" from "The Hegge Cycle". All three of these primitive beginnings of the English drama,--dating as they do from a period long before Shakespeare was to give it its upward impetus,--reflect with striking vividness the curious mixture of simple piety and homely...
...colleges have created that attitude toward their sports which the public holds, and which now inclines to regard colleges as extensive country clubs where the rich boy goes to have a good time and be captain of football. If the colleges have created that attitude--by providing rather pageant-like spectacles--they can remedy...