Word: pageanteers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Franciscans point out that Congress designated their Fair, which will begin in February 1939, two months before New York's, as "America's official World's Fair of the West in 1939." Its actual title, however, is "Golden Gate International Exposition" with the major subtitle "Pageant of the Pacific...
...withdrew saying it was not non-partisan but Rightist in his opinion, not only has sent no relief to Spain but spent $30,241 on publicity and administration while taking in only $28,635. This was attributed by Mr. Hammond chiefly to losses incurred with a Madison Square Garden pageant on May 19 which went sour. Bulk of Rightist relief came from the Brooklyn Tablet...
...compared with the Baptist and the Methodist churches, the Episcopal Church does not go in much for the sort of homely activity represented by religious plays or pageants. The typical Episcopal vestryman, often a banker or substantial businessman, would feel queer in the false beard and cheesecloth garment which a small-town Presbyterian may wear with pleasure. Doubly notable, therefore, was an Episcopal pageant put on last week in Philadelphia's big Convention Hall-biggest show ever performed by U. S. Episcopalians, and designed to quicken Episcopal interest in missions. It was called The Drama of Missions to Spread...
...actors in the Drama of Missions, Philadelphia churchwomen sewed 1,300-odd costumes which were sent to Virginia to be dyed by students in a mountain mission school. From missionary outposts of the Church, some 40 Episcopal converts and workers went to Philadelphia to appear in the pageant. A professional director of civic and patriotic shows, Percy Jewett Burrell of Boston, wrote the Drama of Missions...
National President Lou Henry Hoover ("Buffalo") didn't show up, but Honorary President Eleanor Roosevelt popped into camp one day, found several girls picking goodies from their "nibble box." Slamming the lid shut, the girls leaped up and saluted. Before a pageant called "Hands Across the World," Mrs. Roosevelt made a speech affirming her interest in world peace: "Peace abroad depends on peace at home and kindly feeling for one another. . . . Learn to laugh. . . . We owe it to the world to preserve our sense of humor. 'All dictators,'" she quoted Biographer Emil Ludwig, " 'are gloomy...