Word: pageants
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Queen Victoria. Every now and again a biographical play comes along and settles comfortably in the center of the bull's-eye. Then for a space a mass of playwrights whose aspirations exceed their acumen present passing glimpses of every spectacular individual in the terrestrial pageant. Usually the results are terrible. Notable exceptions are Disraeli, Abraham Lincoln, Queen Victoria...
...SCARLET PAGEANT...
...National Woman's Party, having held a pageant representing the birth of the equal rights movement on the 75th anniversary of the latter as Seneca Falls, N. Y., is to repeat that pageant in the various sections of the country. The object of the celebrations is to promote the passage of the Party's "Absolute Equality" Amendment to the Constitution. The first repetition of the pageant was held in the Garden of the Gods at Colorado Springs, Colo...
...states of Washington, Oregon, California, Nevada, Utah, Idaho, Colorado, Wyoming. Arizona, New Mexico were represented. Miss Hazel MacKaye, pageant director, said of the pageant in the Garden of Gods: "Only a noble idea is worthy of being interpreted in that awe-inspiring-spot." A chorus of 500 women's voices accompanied the presentation of the pageant. Mrs. Oliver Hazard Perry Belmont, President of the organization, made an address in which she said: " I would not say in so many words that marriage is a failure but it seems to me that statistics speak for themselves...
...Special, and the President and Mrs. Harding, with the Governors of Washington and Oregon, drove in an old Concord stage coach. Mrs. Harding, who could not see the crowd well enough, mounted to the driver's seat. In a j pine grove the party reviewed a pageant of Indians and pioneers - men with their trousers tucked in high boots, soldiers of half a century ago, representations of John Jacob Astor, General Fremont, Kit Carson, Buffalo Bill and others. To add to the local color there were log cabins, specially built for the occasion, and one correspondent recorded that...