Word: pageanteers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Amsterdam solemn Social Democrats filed protests against the Government's "murder" of Dutch sailors. More frivolous, the Independent Socialists staged an aquatic pageant of ridicule, sent through Amsterdam's canals a small boat placarded DE ZEVEN PROVINCIEN on which stood a wag disguised as the Premier, another holding a Bible & oil can and a third tricked out as a Royal Dutch Co. (petroleum) official. Shocked by such sights, dignified Dutch policemen promptly arrested the fun-making crew as soon as they could persuade them to come ashore. Firmly at Helder, Dutch Naval Base in Northern Holland, officers mounted...
...PAGEANT-G. B. Lancaster-Century ($2.50). 19th Century family life in Tasmania. Literary Guild choice for February...
...running in London during a single season, a record equaled only by the late Edgar Wallace. A few blocks away from the Manhattan theatre housing his Design For Living, last week a cinemansion was packing in well-bred audiences who seldom stoop to cinema, to witness Cavalcade, his episodic pageant of empire not yet legitimately staged in the U, S. Further down the street the shadow of Claudette Colbert was to be seen fluttering across a screen version (Tonight is Ours) of one of Playwright Coward's most dismal failures, The Queen Was in the Parlour. Wherever he went...
...years ago a George White show was a symbol; a hectic pageant of skits, sheiks, jugglers, tap dancers, Mormons, Turks, Doukhoubars, Greek gods, and Canadian Mounted Police. Sixty scenes and as many chorus girls were only attributes of a production that could be accurately described as "mammoth." But that was another age. An age that has gone the way of two dollar wheat. This bright new year has caught us turning back to the family circle and to what we are beginning to call the sentimental values...
Under the dim lights of the New Lecture Hall this evening there will be a pageant of the nations, not that gala event which blesses the sawdust ring, but the more serious conception of international pageantry produced under the direction of Phillips Brooks House. The Harvard Model League, of all the 20,000 in the country, is said to be the best, but even so, one wonders. Just like the real league in Geneva, they say, so splendid to arouse interest in international affairs, and at the same time it teaches how the diplomatic machinery works. Of course, there...