Word: pageant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hats Off to Ice (produced by Sonja Henie and Arthur M. Wirtz) gave Manhattan's vast Center Theater its fifth polar pageant in four years. Though any of these monster skating parties could pardonably be mistaken for any other, Hats Off-with its glossy look, its smart showmanship, its varied skill-is one of the best...
Admission to the rally, the gala event of Cambridge's bond buying efforts, is free to purchasers of war bonds at Cambridge booths. Besides the Glee Club concert, the rally will offer a pageant, music by part of the Boston Coast Guard Band, and entertainment by Phil Saltman, radio star. Door prizes consisting of sculptures, paintings, and crafts by Cambridge artists will be given...
...third spectacle in this most unbelievable Saturday night pageant will be the happy, smiling faces of Army, Navy and Marine Officers as they wend their way toward Memorial Hall to that promised land of a good, inexpensive evening with loads of fun, laughs and attractive girls. It's kind of difficult for anyone to smile these days when heading for a date, what with thoughts of a rapidly inflating check devouring a deflated bankroll with equal rapidity...
...Benito Mussolini it had been a Latin pageant: the refurbishing of old Roman monuments and the building of new ones; marshland drained and colonies settled; a corporative state and the Balilla; adventure in Corfu, Ethiopia, Spain, Albania, Greece and Egypt; the dream of Mare Nostrum and the grandest of Mediterranean empires...
...nocturnes of the old market or the environs of Malvin, his two wonderful paintings of the murder of Facundo Quiroga on the diligence, and above all the strange series of Negro customs, candombe dancers, wakes, the mongrels chasing the funerals on foot, the parades and festivals are an inexhaustible pageant of a rich past, the best of which are splendidly painted...