Word: pageanteers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Somewhat concealed behind this display of histrionic fireworks, Shaw's play remains a superb bit of theatre. For two acts and a half it relates the pageant of the maid and in one scene after another sets off the spectacle with brilliant insight and unbeatable dialogue. In the epilouge Mr. Shaw takes the stage and puts his people through the amusing cynicisms which mark his very best work...
...John Reed who wrote youthful poetry for the Harvard Monthly and the Advocate, who led the cheering in the Stadium, member of Hasty Pudding and Ibis of the Lampoon. The same John Reed wrote the words to the football song "Score," and created the Paterson strike pageant. The same Reed chummed with the romantic Villa in Mexico and, not much later, was under indictment in a half-score of sedition cases for defending the Russion Revolution in this country. He changed tremendously in the decade of upheaval from '10 to '12 but his change had been in intensity...
Proudest boast of Crystal City, Tex. (pop. 6,609) is spinach. Last week, as part of the State's centennial celebration, Crystal City climaxed its pageant depicting "Texas under Six Flags" by ceremoniously enthroning its dark, pert Virginia Speedy, proclaiming her Queen of Spinach. Claiming to be roughage capital of the world, Crystal City last fortnight shipped 206 carloads of spinach, a record for the season...
Jefferson Davis was written by John McGee, FTP regional director for the Southeast. In three acts and twelve scenes, this sombre pageant of the life of the Confederacy's first & only President unfolds with little liveliness but much discretion. Opening on the 75th anniversary of Davis' inaugural at Montgomery, the play's cast numbered 36 minor performers, including a grandniece of Davis named Winifred Davis Crawford, and Actor Guy Standing Jr. The son and namesake of the cinema's Sir Guy Standing had been put on FTP's payroll at the regular $23.86 a week...
...Pageantry has its place, but nobody wants a criminal trial to be a pageant...