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Making the Harvard Square bookstore rounds in May of 1964, you would have come across a cheap-looking mimeographed publication called The Pageant of the Beasts, by Anonymous. Selling (in fact best-selling) for a dime, it told of a forest full of animals who put together a pageant in honor of White Swan, a local poet laureate whose 40th birthday...
...Pageant of the Beasts was an in-joke, written for the benefit of a tightly knit little in-group, and virtually meaningless to anyone else. The beasts of the tale were the actors, administrators, and friends of the Loeb Drama Center. The pageant was the Loeb's great Shakespeare Festival, a project which had already alienated or attracted enough people to buy up Beasts' full press...
...minor roles and inbred cocktail parties. Seltzer had passed the torch from one generation to another, and the older crowd wasn't having any of it. They talked behind his back, mailed hastily drafted protest letters to the Crimson, thought about or actually wrote works of vengeance like The Pageant of the Beasts...
MISS TEENAGE AMERICA PAGEANT (CBS, 10-11:30 p.m.). For those who have been wondering what the younger generation is coining...
...tempted to burst into the Rodgers & Hammerstein admonition that chicks 'n' ducks 'n' geese better scurry. Generally, the acting style is holier-than-thou, for Huston conducts his ensemble rather like an old-fashioned Sunday-school master who has put on a multimillion-dollar spring pageant and copped the best parts for himself...