Word: pomp
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Edward Elgar, composer of Pomp and Circumstance (as red-coated a British tune as Sousa's Stars and Stripes is true-blue American), has been created "Master of the King's Music," by special and personal appointment of H. M. King George. In this office he succeeds Sir Walter...
...complete program follows: 1. Pomp and Circumstance Elgar 2. Overture to "Pique Dame" Suppe 3. Fantasia, "11 Trovatore" Verdi 4. Songs by Freshman Glee Club Prayer of Thanksgiving Kremser Winter Song Bullard O Susannah Foster 5. Danse Macabre Saint-Saens 6. Deep River Burieigh-Jacchia 7. The Ride of the Valkyries Wagner 8. Songs by Freshman Glee Club: Australia Arr. by Hancock Ten Thousand Men of Harvard Murray Football Songs Arr. by Childe 9. Selection, "Stepping Stones" Kern 10. Waltx. "La Barcarolle" Waldteuful 11. "Up the Street" Morse Fair Harvard
Charles D. B. King, President of Liberia, entered upon his second term amid pomp signifying progress. A feature of the ceremonies was a parade headed by the President, his Cabinet, the Judges of the Supreme Court, foreign representatives including Dr. W. E. B. DuBois, colored U. S. Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary. Officers from English and French warships, a native force, well drilled, a company of girl guides added to the occasion...
Ziegfeld Follies. Around this time of late years, when business slackens, the Ziegfeld Follies have a new film of talent drawn over them. This is announced with great pomp and circumstance as "a new spring edition of the Ziegfeld Follies." As a matter of fact, there is usually not much that is new in the production, save in the bedazzled eyes of the publicity department. The showgirls, that essential base of the production, remain the same collection of sleeping beauties, glossily torpid with pulchritude...
...MIRACLE-Prodigal pomp and circumstance. Max Reinhardt and Morris Gest introduce Billy Sunday showmanship into religion...