Word: pageants
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tempted to burst into the Rodgers & Hammerstein admonition that chicks 'n' ducks 'n' geese better scurry. Generally, the acting style is holier-than-thou, for Huston conducts his ensemble rather like an old-fashioned Sunday-school master who has put on a multimillion-dollar spring pageant and copped the best parts for himself...
...eager to have a look at his new home. Mama mia! What he sees is enough to curl his beard. It's bad enough that the exterior looks like a brewery. But the backstage area is so cramped that it can hardly accommodate a P.T.A. pageant. Principal singers, he finds to his horror, have to rehearse in the ladies' powder room; scenery is stacked behind the building on Seventh Avenue. Just be patient, the board of directors tells him, the company will be moving into a new and spacious house in two or three years...
MISS UNIVERSE BEAUTY PAGEANT (CBS, 10-11:30 p.m.). Some day this annual event will be broadcast from Venus with a bunch of Martians presiding, but in the meantime viewers will have to be content with Miami Beach, Pat Boone, June Lockhart and Jack Linkletter. In color for the first time, though...
MISS U.S.A. BEAUTY PAGEANT (CBS, 10-11:30 p.m.). June Lockhart, Pat Boone and Art Linkletter purvey the prime-and well pasteurized-pulchritude of this perennial, live from Miami Beach...
Sweaty Santas. Though the U.S. has made the Christmas pageant what it is today, other countries have recognized a good thing when they see it. Two weeks ago, some 100,000 mothers and children crowded into Rio de Janeiro's Flamengo Park and watched a helicopter approach. Everyone burst into a frenzied shout when it finally touched down and disgorged a befurred Santa Claus, sweating gamely in the 90° heat...