Word: pageants
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...workaday schoolrooms of Ottawa's Joan of Arc Institute were bright with holiday colors as proud fathers & mothers gathered for the annual Christmas pageant. Word soon got around that a distinguished family was in the audience: Canada's Governor General Viscount Alexander of Tunis, his wife Lady Alexander and their two sons, Shane and Brian. Then everyone quieted down to watch the nursery school actors dance and do their little play called Where Do You Come From, Shepherd...
With that, the stage took on the appearance of a teenage jive joint, and members of the Academic's high school group, which meets once a week, presented a combination fashion show, beauty pageant and musical comedy, with slight Old Howard over-tones. (At least there was a runway, making every seat a front row seat.) The girls were extremely nervous and the narrator found herself forced to ad lib when the "sub-deb in the fetching pink chiffon formal," failed to appear. During this portion of the program, a paid pianist ground away relentlessly, providing suitably nondescript background music...
...that many in the Met's 500 "blind" seats could see. But what would especially hit the audiences is color-reds, blues, greens, purples, pinks and yellows. Seldom in its history had the Met's old stage flashed with such brilliant array as in the second-act pageant where Radames returns in triumph from his campaign against the Ethiopians; the scene onstage comes close to matching the color of Verdi's music...
After dinner there was a "pageant," produced at a cost of $16,000 with a cast of 150. Narrators, musicians, singers, actors and ballet dancers extolled Republican virtues, lambasted Democrats, burlesqued Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman. Bob Taft, making penciled changes in his speech, watched little of it. Then he rose to bear down on the issues: the Truman Administration is leading the country away from free enterprise toward socialism. Its foreign-relations blunders built up the Communist menace, led to war in Korea. Corruption in government, sharply illustrated now by the income-tax racketeers, must be swept...
...years-ago best to welcome the visiting Lord Mayor of London, Sir Denys Lowson, 45, the youngest to hold office since Dick Whittington took the oath at the age of 38. On a good-will visit to "knit closer together the bonds of friendship," he closed the four-day pageant by leading a parade of mayors from the colonial capitals of the 13 original states...