Word: pageants
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Honest Bob. In High Point, N.C., after a friend squared the $9 he owed on bad checks, Robert Denny was freed from jail just in time to play his role of Abraham Lincoln in the town's historical pageant...
...team is tasting the first Eli blood that has fallen to a Crimson nine in several years. A Harvard crew is waiting in New London with more than psychology to show to a Yale eight on the Thames tomorrow. Bands play, stands cheer, flags wave. It is an exciting pageant. And it is a curious sociology that lies behind it. Anthropologists of today may well envy their successors of tomorrow the investigation of the Commencement celebrations of primitive American peoples...
Today's dance pageant, "Gift of the Nile," shows the weeks of work that the 90-odd performers spent on it. The story revolves around a princess, played by Owen Stose '51, who has a difficult time choosing between three sutors offering her riches, royalty, and love--the silly girl...
...Hayworth, protrudes from the Mexican atmosphere like a stock Hollywood femme fatale. Aficionados can take some solace in Director Rossen's bullfighting scenes, well-staged within Production Code limits, and the movie's wealth of such local color as a bull-breeding ranch and a religious street pageant...
Last week Newsweek sold its new pocket-sized picture magazine People Today to Hillman Periodicals, Inc., publishers of Pageant and a string of moneymaking pulps, for "more than...