Word: pageants
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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AMERICA'S JUNIOR MISS PAGEANT (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Fifty "ideal high school girls" vie for the title of 1908's Junior Miss...
...complex plot defies easy unraveling even in Eric Bentley's swift and supple version. In a historical pageant held 20 years before the action of the play begins in 1922, an Italian noble man (Kenneth Haigh) had his horse tripped by a rival for his mistress' favors. After the fall he went mad, imagining himself to be the character he had been impersonating in the pageant, the 11th century Emperor Henry IV of Germany. He lived in a villa complete with throne, courtiers and artifacts of the period. For the first twelve years after his accident, the pseudo...
...year later, in 1955, the dance group directed the writing and producing of a pageant about the life of Dorthea Lynde Dix. Miss Dix, famous for her campaigns to improve treatment of the mentally ill, was instrumental in the federal government's founding of St. Elizabeth's a century before...
MISS TEENAGE AMERICA PAGEANT (CBS, 10-11:30 p.m.). The winner will be chosen from 64 finalists, culminating six months of competition among teen-agers in more than 60 major U.S. cities. Jimmy Durante, Jane Powell and Dean Jones preside over the annual festivities broadcast from Dallas...
...concrete floor. The three huge elevators that make up the sectional stage are so warped with age that they meet unevenly, varying as much as an inch in many spots. With that hazard, as well as puddles from a simulated April Showers, or droppings from camels in the Nativity pageant, or oil slick from a fleet of autos used to ferry the chorus onstage, the girls are lucky to land on their toes and not their backsides. On one occasion a Rockette slipped in a cloud of steam hissing up through holes in the stage, plummeted into the orchestra...