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...Pageant Unfolds. Into the north end of Westminster Hall the American lawyers thronged for the welcoming ceremonies, many bearing their light meters and cameras, a few doffing ten-gallon hats as they entered, most of them sharp-eyed, serious men, substantial in their communities, practical men who had not forgotten how to be stirred by a great occasion which ennobled their vocation with high purpose...
...This pageant of intense undergraduate activity has developed to clash with the older traditions of Harvard--the quiet that lingers in the Yard and the contemplative detachment of "Tory Row." And there is evidence that the leisurely quest for the constructive relaxation of extra-curricular activities has been transformed into an intense drive for the kind of competence that has always been held more characteristic of "the business world...
Schoolgirl Heinkel has been performing before audiences since she was three. In home-town St. Louis, where her father sells plumbing fixtures, a TV station manager spotted her playing Shirley Temple in a Christmas pageant, put her on a local kiddie show. She won modeling jobs, as well as roles in 13 St. Louis Municipal Opera productions. Chicago producers spotted her on a local TV show, were so impressed that they gave CBS brass in Manhattan a look at her over a closed-circuit broadcast. CBS whipped up a format, wooed Susan to Chicago's WBBM...
Ceremonial Sefs. The eye-popping fact was that Saudi Arabia's King Saud acted every inch the fabled and inscrutable potentate. His retinue-some 70 advisers and princes, ballasted by 300 pieces of luggage-was a brilliant pageant of flowing robes and fancy headdresses. There seemed to be a retainer on hand to perform every minute function: the royal chief steward came along to oversee the seasoning of the King's food; a compass-bearer kept track of the direction of Mecca for the five daily prayer rituals of the King; there was a royal barber, a coffee...
...World, Barrault began by saluting another man's more famous voyage there. Christophe Colomb, written by the late French poet (and Ambassador to the U.S.) Paul Claudel, celebrates the discoverer of America as no American playwright has ever bothered to do. Not a play but a pageant, a piece of "total theater," Christophe Colomb employs language, music, choruses, crowds, ballet, a movie screen, a narrator. Nor is Colomb just biographical. It is encrusted with philosophic thought, is suffused with Catholic Poet Claudel's intense religious feeling, and indeed concludes with Queen Isabella's triumphal entrance into Heaven...