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...around a stage slightly larger than an elbow of the great Catawba River. And with annual punctuality and a sound like muslin ripping, gunshots in New Mexico signal The Last Escape of Billy the Kid. Mixing fact, fiction, sentiment and gunpowder, the U.S.'s grandiose, often grandiloquent summer pageant plays provide a basic drive-in course in history for more than 5,000,000 people a year, some of whom are surprised to learn that the first De Soto did not reach the Great Smokies on six cylinders...
Among the more notable pageant plays...
...White (The Once and Future King) Author Fadiman is a cut above Lerner & Loewe (Camelot). His grave young hero seems to sense that he is on the threshold of a mythic destiny. Fadiman's Merlin is a wiser Polonius. His courts and tourna ments are a pageant of medieval glory as if they had been clipped from the film sequences of Olivier's Henry...
...Nation's Future (NBC, 9:30-10 p.m.). Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas gives his unilateral views on "Foreign Policy at Home and Abroad." Miss Universe Beauty Pageant (CBS, 10-11:30 p.m.). This year's contest in Miami Beach decides who in the world has the best outer space...
...year-old Hewlett Johnson, Dr. Ramsey received the gold-encrusted shepherd's crook of his office, then moved to the grey marble Chair of St. Augustine,† on which each Archbishop of Canterbury has sat for his enthronement since 1205. Before speaking, Ramsey seemed deliberately to dismiss the pageant splendor around him, fumbling in his robes for his spectacles and his handkerchief. Carefully he cleaned each lens, placed the glasses on his nose, and wiped a drop of moisture from the palm of one hand. Then he began in fluting tones to preach for the first time...