Word: pageants
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wide variety of material. "Follow Thru" is perhaps the best, a grand show with no outstanding stars but talented performers, good music and an uproariously funny scene in a girl's locker room, adorned with chorus girls in little enough underclothing. Undress is also the basis for a chaste pageant in Ziegfeld's "Whoopee", which has good music as well and the antics of Eddie Cantor. "Spring Is Here" initiating Glenn Hunter into musical comedy is for connoisseurs the brightest and most engaging of this type of attraction though "Hold Everything", an early season offering of Aarons and Freedley...
Shortly after noon solemn high mass was done. A quiver of expectancy thrilled the waiting crowds as the church doors swung open. Out of them issued a colorful pageant...
...Jesuit historian has recently called the early history of Harvard "one of the brilliant pageants of American history," a pageant of which the "real theme is courage and devotion; courage under conditions which would seem to stifle all human effort save an avid grubbing for food and housing, devotion to the fine ideal of disciplining the human intellect and human will." One might add that the courage was largely Dunster's, and in devotion no one was his equal. Harvard College might even have followed its founder to an early death and oblivion, but for the lively faith, the serene...
...particularize this pageant it may be recalled that "the Officers of Arms habited in their tabards and attended by the Sergeants at Arms shall assemble at St. James's Palace and there proceed to the balcony in Friary Court" with the six Heralds-Richmond, Windsor, Lancaster, York, Somerset and Chester†-thereupon trumpeteers sound a "fanfare" and the proclamation is first read by the Garter Principle King of Arms, at present Sir Henry Farnham Burke...
...lice, the mud, the oaths, on "Flanders Field." The present volume is distinctive in vivifying that other, more mysterious, no-man's-land east of Germany, west of Russia. But far more than this, The Case of Sergeant Grischa is a powerful indictment of autocratic statecraft, a pageant of heterogeneous border peoples, and a human document of uncanny understanding. The jocund vitality which lured Grischa to mad escape is no less vivid than his fatalistic reluctance to escape again. Insignificant "case," Grischa is the symbol that rouses the interest pf villagers, the prophecies of Hebrew elders, the affection...