Word: pageants
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With the laudable desire to set before the public history as a pageant, great men and famous women acting out the world's story, Mr. Sabatini has selected incidents ranging in variety from Boris Gudonov's encounter with the pretended son of Ivan the Terrible to the betrayal of Sir Walter Raleigh. Then, in the manner of the more rabid of the Romantic school writers, he has moved his characters ranting bombastically, gesturing grandly through the scenes. He has robbed his characters of any individuality, and little traits of personality, and left them mere names...
George Pierce Baker '87, Professor of Dramatic Literature at the University and author of many notable pageants, has been selected to write the Pilgrim Pageant, which will form the central feature of the celebration of the tercentenary of the landing of the Pilgrims at Plymouth. Work on the pageant, which is to visualize the Pilgrim story, has already begun. Professor Baker is planning to enlist the co-operation of the foremost literary and musical talent in America, and to embody in his work lyrics and musical gems by the most notable writers and composers...
...tentative dates for the pageant at Plymouth are from July 20 to August...
...oldest college building in America--Massachusetts Hall--will have its 200th birthday this year. Some years ago the birthday of Hollis Hall was celebrated by a pageant, speeches, poems, and dinners. Massachusetts Hall, which is older than Hollis, will have an even more elaborate celebration. Plans for it are in charge of William Coolidge Lane, Librarian of Widener Memorial Library and President of the Harvard Memorial Society...