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...magazines had skyrocketed in the first two postwar years-and so had magazine mortality. Several big "X" (for experimental) projects had been quietly stowed away on the back of the shelf, and a good many marginal titles had been quietly junked by their publishers. Last week, adless, pocket-sized Pageant, one of the likelier-looking war babies, was dying in its handsome crib...
Publisher Alex L. Hillman started it in November 1944, to add a touch of prestige to his profitable, hurdy-gaudy string (comic books, Real Romances, Crime Detective, etc.). Pageant went out for good bylines, good pictures and no reprints. But neither Eugene Lyons, its first editor, nor Vernon Pope, its last (since May 1945), had the paper to justify promoting Pageant into competition with The Reader's Digest or Coronet. In the past 18 months, Pageant (circ. 270,000) has lost $400,000 for Publisher Hillman, mainly because of rising printing and paper costs. Pope and most...
Bilbo, at least this time, spoke for the majority. His is one ample reason why the regular sessions of Congress have never been broadcast. Thus far, only special sessions and important committee meetings have gone on the air. But according to a poll last week, in Pageant magazine, Congress is beginning to change its mind. After sampling the views of some 70 legislators, Pollster J. H. Pollock reported that 61% of them were quite willing to have microphones at their benches; only 33% were opposed; 6% were still mulling it over...
...year-old Alec Guinness, a balding skinnybones with the wide, dashed look of a boy who has just blown his lines in the Sunday-school pageant. In the last six months mild-voiced young Alec has provoked the Old Vic's stage into varied and resonant life. As the Fool in King Lear, Time & Tide found him near "perfection." The Daily Telegraph thought his cockalorum De Guiche in Cyrano de Bergerac "a remarkable feat...
There is a fine gaudy pageant called Once Upon a Time, in which Sinbad, Gulliver, Aladdin, Don Quixote, Rip van Winkle, Snow White, Hansel & Gretel walk, drive, or ride elephant-back to Cinderella's wedding. Then 52 girls in brilliant billowing pink, hanging by a wrist in midair, do a stylish cancan...