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...that many in the Met's 500 "blind" seats could see. But what would especially hit the audiences is color-reds, blues, greens, purples, pinks and yellows. Seldom in its history had the Met's old stage flashed with such brilliant array as in the second-act pageant where Radames returns in triumph from his campaign against the Ethiopians; the scene onstage comes close to matching the color of Verdi's music...
After dinner there was a "pageant," produced at a cost of $16,000 with a cast of 150. Narrators, musicians, singers, actors and ballet dancers extolled Republican virtues, lambasted Democrats, burlesqued Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman. Bob Taft, making penciled changes in his speech, watched little of it. Then he rose to bear down on the issues: the Truman Administration is leading the country away from free enterprise toward socialism. Its foreign-relations blunders built up the Communist menace, led to war in Korea. Corruption in government, sharply illustrated now by the income-tax racketeers, must be swept...
...years-ago best to welcome the visiting Lord Mayor of London, Sir Denys Lowson, 45, the youngest to hold office since Dick Whittington took the oath at the age of 38. On a good-will visit to "knit closer together the bonds of friendship," he closed the four-day pageant by leading a parade of mayors from the colonial capitals of the 13 original states...
Honest Bob. In High Point, N.C., after a friend squared the $9 he owed on bad checks, Robert Denny was freed from jail just in time to play his role of Abraham Lincoln in the town's historical pageant...
...team is tasting the first Eli blood that has fallen to a Crimson nine in several years. A Harvard crew is waiting in New London with more than psychology to show to a Yale eight on the Thames tomorrow. Bands play, stands cheer, flags wave. It is an exciting pageant. And it is a curious sociology that lies behind it. Anthropologists of today may well envy their successors of tomorrow the investigation of the Commencement celebrations of primitive American peoples...