Word: pilgrimate
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...nurse's uniform, to a bare piano accompaniment, but in Philadelphia last week she sang it in its rightful pagan setting. Languorously, with blandishment in every tone, she tried to stay the truant Tannhäuser whose torn soul was marvelously depicted by the stately chords of holy Pilgrim music and the madly skirling strings of a Bacchanal. Tenor Gotthelf Pistor had the nasal, strutting manner of most German tenors, but his Tannhäuser showed a certain dark-toned dignity. Conductor Fritz Reiner made a proud showing for his U. S. opera début, the opening...
Meanwhile at Roosevelt Field, Long Island, nearest airport to Garden City, the 1911 flight was to be reenacted by Charles Sherman ("Casey") Jones in a 1911 Curtiss "pusher," and by Dean Smith, crack airmail pilot and Antarctic flyer of the Byrd expedition, in a Pilgrim monoplane. One sack of mail was to be dropped by parachute near the Mineola postoffice, the remainder flown to Newark for transfer to regular airmail planes...
...wears red trousers and horns, but it is easy to see what he really is. He is a sporting blood, a race-track Satan, a ginmill Beelzebub; he has a bottle of red-eye liquor in his hand and is not stingy with his drinks. The Wayworn Traveler, the Pilgrim of Faith, the Troubled Soul, the Poor Blind Girl, the Pilgrim of Hope, the Widow and her Children and the Bedridden Woman all get past him safely. Walking up to St. Peter's throne, they sing "Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen...
...gets to Heaven, they turn her out. She whispers "Too late!" and goes down to the Devil. He also gets the Hypocrite, a housewife who follows Satan and wears his flowers while singing "I'm on My Way to Heaven." The Devil keeps her dancing. Finally, the Pilgrim of Determination marches past the Devil, singing "I'm Going Through." When she reaches the throne, the Negro audiences at Heaven Bound shout loudly. The choir of Saints, Angels and Pilgrims sing more songs-"Great Day," "Going to Shout All Over God's Heaven," "Every Time I Feel...
...members of the Big Bethel, choir supplemented, outside Atlanta, by singers from other colored churches. St. Peter is Henry Mathews, a onetime slave who is sexton of Big Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church. He wears white robes, golden keys around his neck and his own long, crinkly beard. Pilgrim of Determination is Esther Jones, a dry-cleaner; Millionaire is Hubert Jones, an Atlanta barber; Devil is George A. Pullum, a railway postal clerk. Reader or interpreter, who also helps guide the action of the play, has been Estella Z. Wright, 20-year-old Negro stenographer, soon to join the staff...