Word: pageanteers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years ago the name Teterboro was as familiar to the air-minded public as the word Newark is today. Across the tarmac and down the four runways of Teterboro Field, near little Hasbrouck Heights, N. J., the great and near-great flyers of the day paraded in ceaseless pageant. Bernt Balchen and Clarence Chamberlain based there; wild Bert Acosta cavorted in the sky; Charles Lindbergh was a frequent visitor; Giuseppe Bellanca there tested his new ships. Chief of Teterboro's prides was the No. 1 U. S. air plant of the period-Fokker-building not only most...
...other churches in celebrating the centenary of the birth of Evangelist Dwight Lyman Moody (TIME, Aug. 17), U. S. Presbyterians next laid plans to recall the fact that Presbyterian foreign missions were instituted a century ago. From this spring to next autumn the centenary will be celebrated with a pageant, a play, many a speech and a broadcast dinner. To the Centennial Council it seemed that a special hymn was needed for their occasion and for one they offered $50. Last week three Presbyterian judges announced the winner from among 200 entries. Title: God of Years, Thy Love Hath...
Brazil nuts and buttermilk, inquired what the Church's annual Easter pageant was to be. Usually it was a work called Lord of Life but, as the current Zion souvenir program relates, "When God's clock struck the hour for the presentation of Zion Passion Play, He had ready a young man." That young man was Elder Jabez Taylor, now 29, one of the Community's twelve ordained ministers. Having discovered he hated to preach, "Jay" Taylor had taken to directing church plays, and for Overseer Voliva he worked up a Passion Play which cost...
...superspectacle is large scale. It was more than three years in the making. Its premiere, postponed ten times, finally took place one year and 15 days late. The heart-breaking difficulties which beset its promoters were scarcely less impressive than those of the Jewish people whose historic sorrows the pageant so magnificently pictures...
...Meyer Weisgal, who had already put on in Chicago, Manhattan, Philadelphia, Cleveland and Detroit a pageant called The Romance of a People to raise funds for Jewish charity, persisted. He eventually got another $213,000 and Eternal Road rehearsals resumed Nov. 29, 1936. There were three more postponements before the greatest night in a generation for New York's Jews at last arrived. With Sara Delano Roosevelt representing the Gentiles and Rabbi Stephen Samuel Wise at the head of his flock, the lights went down...