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Here comes Chess, the biggest new musical hit of the international theater season. A colorful satiric pageant about the political and romantic gamesmanship attending a world chess championship, the show has won raves from European critics for Lyricist Tim Rice (Jesus Christ Superstar, Evita), Composers Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus (of the Swedish pop quartet ABBA) and the piece's star, Elaine Paige. Chess has spun off two top-of-the-pops singles: the ballad I Know Him So Well resided at No. 1 in Britain for four weeks, and the insinuating disco rap One Night in Bangkok...
...President and First Lady Nancy Reagan glided happily through the Inaugural's opening events, welcoming a crowd of 6,000 to Friday night's Prelude Pageant, held in a light snowfall on the Ellipse. The program was a musical tribute to U.S. history, with a narration by Actor Fess Parker that included excerpts from presidential swearing-in addresses beginning with George Washington's in 1789. The 1 1/4-hour pageant ended with a gigantic fireworks display set off from both sides of the Ellipse and the White House South Lawn to ignite directly over the Washington Monument...
...first day of his second term was kept deliberately low key: a 45-minute prayer service at the National Cathedral, to be followed by the swearing-in ceremony at the White House. In the late afternoon, the President was due at the Jefferson Memorial to attend the National Pageant of Young Americans, one of several Inaugural events designed to increase the participation of incipient Republicans...
This Inaugural will feature more public events than were offered in 1981. Friday's opening pageant and fireworks display on the Ellipse, for example, will be free. The number of reviewing boxes along the Pennsylvania Avenue parade route ($12.50 to $100 per seat) has been reduced to provide more standing room...
Another arrested squatter was Lutheran Pastor William Rex, a D.M.S. activist who faces additional troubles. Pittsburgh police accuse him of conspiring to plan a protest at Shadyside Presbyterian Church, where suspected D.M.S. members hurled balloons filled with dye and skunk spray at participants in a family Christmas pageant. In addition, members of Rex's parishes in Monroeville and Trafford, Pa., have petitioned Bishop May to investigate the parson's conduct...