Word: pageanteer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Headed by Chief Marshal Gardner Cowles '25, the procession of the alumni will form at 1:30 p.m. in front of Harvard Hall for the march to the theatre. Commencement dignitaries assembled on the Widener steps will review the pageant...
...still. Whispered one anxious artist in a thick Italian accent: "Do you know the words to this For He's a Jolly Good Fellow?" Replied another: "I don't even know the melody." Nevertheless, when the curtain went down on Tosca, then up again on a gala pageant of recent Met history, every singer present seemed to roar it out like a native, and from the heart. There was good reason for their fervor: the pageant was the Met's farewell to pink-cheeked, white-haired General Manager Edward Johnson, who will retire when Manager-Designate Rudolf...