Word: pageanteers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Metropolitan: "Cleopatra"--DeMille's super spectacle with Claudette Colbert, Warren Williams, Henry Wilcoxon, thousands of bouncing Hollywood beauties and sundry lavish effects, Egyptian and otherwise. Very enjoyable as a pageant albeit somewhat noisy and long...
Mary Louise Peck's impersonation of the Maid of Orleans was part of a pageant given last fortnight at semiswank Atlantic Beach Club on Long Island. Most of them scantily clad to represent such characters as Messalina, Mae West and Pocahontas, the performers included Swimmer Helen Meany, a semi-nude showgirl and that most formidable and ubiquitous of socialites. Mrs. S. Stanwood Menken. To dine and see the pageant 251 persons had bought tickets at $7.50 each and, to give the spectacle an air of righteous charity, the profits, if any, were to go to a local fire department...
Booker T. Washington stands at Tuskegee. Minstrels sing spirituals. The pageant becomes modern Harlem medley. Irene Castle McLaughlin explains her old-time dances, the "Bunny Hug," the "Hesitation," the ''Maxine." A chorus dances them. Orchestra Leader Noble Sissle recalls the War with his ''On Patrol in No Man's Land." Bill Robinson does a tap dance, brings down the house, encores again and again. W. C. Handy leads his "St. Louis Blues." All 5,000 voices break into a tremendous chant...
Noble Sissle has been twice bankrupt, many times successful. During one of his flush periods, he met Alfred Stern, son-in-law of the late Julius Rosenwald. Last week the Rosenwald Fund helped out Sissle's pageant to the tune of $3,000. Sissle wrote the book for the show, gathered around him such Negro musicians as N. Clark Smith, son of an African tribesman and an authority on African music, William Vodery, who arranged most of Ziegfeld's Show Boat music. Will Marion Cook ("Ghost Ship"), Harry Lawrence Freeman ("Voodoo"), Harry T. Burleigh ("Deep River" ). J. Rosamund Johnson ("Lazy...
...ROCK ? T. S. Eliot ? Harcourt, Brace ($1). A pageant play by U. S. expatriate No. 1, celebrating the story of the Church of England, in prose and verse...