Word: pageants
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...around a stage slightly larger than an elbow of the great Catawba River. And with annual punctuality and a sound like muslin ripping, gunshots in New Mexico signal The Last Escape of Billy the Kid. Mixing fact, fiction, sentiment and gunpowder, the U.S.'s grandiose, often grandiloquent summer pageant plays provide a basic drive-in course in history for more than 5,000,000 people a year, some of whom are surprised to learn that the first De Soto did not reach the Great Smokies on six cylinders...
Among the more notable pageant plays...
...UNTO THESE HILLS (Cherokee, N.C.), by Kermit Hunter, has been seen by more than 1,500,000 people in twelve seasons and is the biggest money grosser on the pageant circuit. Dealing with the misfortunes of the Cherokees, it has a 50% Cherokee cast, goes vigorously for the scalp of Andrew Jackson. Early in the play, a Cherokee chieftain heroically saves General Jackson's life at the battle of Horseshoe Bend, but before long, in a scene set in the White House, President Jackson defeathers his old allies, insists on deporting them to Oklahoma despite the eloquent pleas...
...White (The Once and Future King) Author Fadiman is a cut above Lerner & Loewe (Camelot). His grave young hero seems to sense that he is on the threshold of a mythic destiny. Fadiman's Merlin is a wiser Polonius. His courts and tourna ments are a pageant of medieval glory as if they had been clipped from the film sequences of Olivier's Henry...
...Nation's Future (NBC, 9:30-10 p.m.). Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas gives his unilateral views on "Foreign Policy at Home and Abroad." Miss Universe Beauty Pageant (CBS, 10-11:30 p.m.). This year's contest in Miami Beach decides who in the world has the best outer space...