Word: pageanteers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Negro Actor Richard B. Harrison ("De Lawd" of The Green Pastures) sat under a spotlight before 30,000 spectators in Chicago's Soldier Field one night last week. Three blacks to one white, they were there to see and hear 0 Sing a New Song, a gigantic three-act pageant of the Negro race. The solemn words of Narrator Harrison put in motion a sight & sound spectacle that required the voices of 5,000 U. S. blacks, the wild antics of a handful of Basuto tribesmen brought from Africa for the occasion...
...seats built in front of the Church of San Trovaso, a brilliant audience greeted the pageant and its cast. Umberto, Prince of Piedmont and heir to Italy's throne, gave Producer Reinhardt his congratulations. After four performances the "localization" of The Merchant of Venice, arranged to climax the biennial Venetian art exposition, closed...
...cylinder Cadillac, a rope-drive 1902 Holsman, a 1902 Lincoln truck-roadster, a 1907 Staver roadster with hard tires on its buggy wheels, a 1906 Model N Ford, a 1908 Maxwell driven to the Fair by its owner. The cars had been lent by the Fair pageant Wings of a Century. The race was run on Friday the 13th. Driving a 1904 Maxwell carrying No. 13, Barney Oldfield, whose real name (Berna Oldfield) has 13 letters, won by chugging seven times around a 1,300-ft. course at an average speed of 13 m.p.h...
...Majesty Riza Shah Pahlevi, King of Kings, showed in converse with the Turkish Dictator his customary habit of arriving swiftly at obstinate conclusions. Several times Dictator seemed vexed by Dictator, but only in political converse. When the talk shifted to soldiering both were in their element. With a strutting pageant of Turkish soldiery and Air Force maneuvers, Host Kemal so diverted Guest Pahlevi that the King of Kings prolonged his official visit...
Convention, the need for well-balanced programs, "pull," and the seeming necessity of a pageant of notables, are the four elements which have undermined the impartial grounds on which these awards are made. There are always the easy choices such as Douglas, Cross, and Shapley last year, and probably Lowell, Lippmann, and Hillyer this year, but after these selections the other considerations seem to reign supreme. The usual call for diplomats last year resulted in the choice of the French Ambassador, undoubtedly a distinguished man, but his chances for distinction in this country had begun just a few weeks previously...