Word: pageants
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...better-than-average week of TV drama was topped by the Hall of Fame's two-hour production of Shakespeare's King Richard II, starring Maurice Evans. Using NBC's huge, new Brooklyn studio, Director Albert McCleery made a spectacular pageant of the play, with wolfhounds, horses, birds, ships, a cast of 37 (including Kent Smith and Sarah Churchill) and a mountain of scenery packed into twelve sets, ranging from a prison cell to the 40 ft. battlements of Berkeley Castle...
...King and I," also written by you-know-who, is a handsomely staged pageant, which needs no further introduction. Yul Brynner and Constance Carpenter are the king and I respectively. At the St. James...
...using the past record to disclose and correct past mistakes. The Teapot Dome scandal lived for years as an example of Republican laxity toward corruption; it died only when the Republican leaders convinced the country that their attitude had changed. Through the 1930s, the U.S. watched a grim pageant of congressional hearings which dug into banking and brokerage practices that had contributed to the excesses of the boom years...
Perhaps the most significant fault of the new process is its failure to inspire in the audience a sense of closeness, intimacy, or identification with the action on the screen. Undoubtedly The Robe was produced primarily for pageant value. But one might expect from a film upon which so much time, energy and money were devoted a convincing insight into the psychological and spiritual conflict which are the bases of a religious awakening. This The Robe clearly fails to do. It graphically and boldly displays pagan evil but does not explore its consequences in emotional and spiritual terms...
Commemorating the Sesquicentennial, "The Green Adventure," a pageant written for the anniversary by Charles Allen Smart, will be presented several times this year. Students will handle all the acting, backstage duties and technical parts to the production...