Word: pageants
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Line. Throughout the week, Lyndon spent uncounted and uncountable hours on the phone. In Atlantic City his entourage took over all 120 rooms of the newly completed Pageant Motel, across from Convention Hall, as a White House command post. U.S. Army Signal Corpsmen installed a hot line direct to Lyndon. Key Johnson aides carried electronic devices in their pockets that buzzed whenever there was a call from the boss-and there was a lot of buzzing. The contraptions were supposed to work only above ground and within a five-mile radius of the Pageant switchboard. But they were underrated...
Director Paul Barstow has chosen to do Richard II in the grand manner, with trumpets, banners and fancy costumes. This kind of theater can be very striking, but every detail must be perfect. And even then, if the play is to be more than a pageant, the actors must make their characters live...
MISS UNIVERSE BEAUTY PAGEANT (CBS, 10-11:30 p.m.). Shapely delegates from the world over display their charms and talents. Arlene Francis, John Daly and Jack Linkletter host the competition, broadcast live from Miami Beach...
...Middle Ages, plays in England were sometimes performed from Pageant Waggons, which traveled around the ancient cities stopping at key spots -such as "ye Abbaye gates" and "ye high crosse before ye Mayor"-where the actors would strut and fret their hour upon the unsteady stages...
...York now has its pageant waggons too-set to perform everywhere from ye Bronx to ye Staten Island, and even before ye Bobby Wagner, the mayor. Belonging to Joseph Papp's New York Shakespeare Festival, they are not quaint old tumbrels. They are a caravan of six trucks, led by a big, behemoth trailer truck that disassembles like a Chinese puzzle. In four hours, they collectively become a fully lighted, handsomely equipped Elizabethan theater. In addition to the free, summerlong Shakespeare that the festival group offers in its stationary theater in Central Park, the new road company is taking...