Word: pageanteers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...slashing two-thirds of what Shakespeare wrote, Welles ripped out much that was dull but more that was vital, either in itself or as connective tissue. Even so, were the chronicle plays concerned solely with martial and kingly events, their torso might provide a kind of splendid theatrical pageant. But the chronicle plays do not lend themselves to mere pageantry, for in addition to the huge comic figure of Falstaff, they contain scene after scene of intrigue, domestic life, psychological conflict...
...Caudillo climaxed his martial pageant with his first radio address since the fall of Catalonia, assured those Spaniards under his rule that "the symbol and guarantee of our future is the army you acclaimed today...
...photoelectric cell in Bombay, closing electric circuits by radio to start the carillon in the Tower of the Sun (400 ft., the fair's tallest). The carillon thereupon chimed out the fair's theme song, "The Bells of Treasure Island." Simultaneously on went the floodlights illuminating the Pageant of the Pacific, the Western Wonderland, the $50,000,000 Golden Gate International Exposition...
From their pet playwright the glittering audience got only Grade B Coward. One superb, side-splitting burlesque of an English charity pageant is probably the funniest sketch that Coward has ever written. Two of the songs, Mad About the Boy and The Stately Homes of England...
...lively terrier. She pounces on an idea, gets a firm grip on it, shakes, worries, chews it to bits. Sometimes she gets her teeth into a marrowy morsel, sometimes merely chews an old hat. For several years she has been chewing a huge bone-The Mirror in Darkness, a pageant of post-War England, three volumes so far, three more to come. Every once in a while she buries the bone (but not her bitterness-the War killed her brother, most of her men friends) and writes about Yorkshire moors or shipbuilding or the avocations of a harlot...