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... earliest period to some later point , form- ing a fitting climax . This is set forth in verse and prose of the most direct sort , and is embellished with choruses , songs , dances , marches , and every legitimate spectacular adjunct ...
... earliest period to some later point , form- ing a fitting climax . This is set forth in verse and prose of the most direct sort , and is embellished with choruses , songs , dances , marches , and every legitimate spectacular adjunct ...
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... early pageant car became the stage , and then as a stage served as a platform , at various stations for a text to be enacted thereupon . Courtyards and balconies which housed the spectators who heard and beheld the acted text , had ...
... early pageant car became the stage , and then as a stage served as a platform , at various stations for a text to be enacted thereupon . Courtyards and balconies which housed the spectators who heard and beheld the acted text , had ...
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... early without being obliged to trail each other , will at least not drown out all con- cluding words by starting their cars . Plenty of room , and a liberal estimate of the number of cars is better than turning the last fifty motors ...
... early without being obliged to trail each other , will at least not drown out all con- cluding words by starting their cars . Plenty of room , and a liberal estimate of the number of cars is better than turning the last fifty motors ...
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... early masters , strong rich colors . However , golden halos and stoles on each singer helped to blend the strong and positive hues . This frieze effect was the most beautiful thing in the production . OUTDOOR SITES AND INDOOR SETTINGS 27.
... early masters , strong rich colors . However , golden halos and stoles on each singer helped to blend the strong and positive hues . This frieze effect was the most beautiful thing in the production . OUTDOOR SITES AND INDOOR SETTINGS 27.
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... early as possible . If research is needed , a still longer period should be asked for , and if the committee can be persuaded that it will get a better piece of work by extending the time , there is a possibility of producing ...
... early as possible . If research is needed , a still longer period should be asked for , and if the committee can be persuaded that it will get a better piece of work by extending the time , there is a possibility of producing ...
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action actors allegory amateur American Pageant antiphon arranged artists audience background banner batik beauty blue carry cast characters chorus church climax color committee Company contrast contributory plot coöperates costume curtains dance dancers decoration dialogue director doors dramatic dress dyeing Ecclesiastical effective emotional entrance episode festival figures George Pierce Baker give given grand stand Greek chorus green hall historical Indian indoor interludes International Film Service lamps light light plot lines Louis Masque make-up means ment movement nimbi orchestra OREGON CENTENNIAL organization pageant field pageant master pageantry painted pantomime Percy Mackaye performance person picture pipe organs platform play possible processional production rehearsal religious rheostat salient plot scene side singers singing space spectators spirit stage stage lights stencilled symbol tableaux Theatre theme tickets tion tone town trees values voice words yellow York
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Page 2 - It is the representation of the history of a town, in dramatic form, from the earliest period to some later point, forming a fitting climax. This is set forth in verse and prose of the most direct sort, and is embellished with choruses, songs, dances, marches, and every legitimate spectacular adjunct. It is acted in some beautiful and historical spot, which is left without any artificial embellishment whatever. It is acted by the citizens of the town themselves, their wives, their children and their...
Page 2 - Pageantry," says Professor Baker, " seems likely to be for us [in America] a combination of the Chronicle-Play and the Morality, a free dramatic form which teaches, though not abstractly, by stimulating local pride for that in the past which makes the best incentive to future civic endeavor and accomplishment. Already in the communities where it has been tried, it has quickened patriotism, strengthened civic pride, and stimulated or revealed latent artistic powers.
Page 2 - ... choruses, songs, dances, marches, and every legitimate spectacular adjunct. It is acted in some beautiful and historical spot, which is left without any artificial embellishment whatever. It is acted by the citizens of the town themselves, their wives, their children and their friends .. . . It is acted in a spirit of simplicity and reverence, and the audience must bring the same spirit in watching its progress. It is not a stage play. It is a lofty and dignified panorama of the town's history.
Page 39 - Allegory is a figurative representation conveying a meaning other than, and in addition to, the literal.
Page 3 - A pageant is a part of the great Festival of Thanksgiving to Almighty God for the past glory of a city and for its present prosperity. Such an interpretation removes the whole thing at once to a high plane and out of the atmosphere of the mere spectacular entertainment. The actual pageant should be — in the case of my pageants it always has been — opened and closed by great commemorative services on the previous and concluding Sundays in all the places of worship.
Page 127 - Those desirous of pursuing the subject of composition in detail will find in the books listed in the Bibliography at the end of this volume all the main ' rules
Page 5 - ... highly suggestive, and a sentence or two taken from it, and herein quoted, should be so memorized and practised by the pageant author or producer that it becomes an instinctive ideal constantly making an impress upon the finished work. These are the sentences : " Synchronous with every speech should occur in production effects of pantomime, lighting, music, and movement, with due proportion and emphasis. (The pageant should be) not a structure simply of written words, but a structure really of...
Page 85 - ... us, they somehow do not seem to come out, as it were. They are not understood. There is something beneath that we cannot get hold of. The artist eludes us. So we make up wild things of our own, with whoops and leaps. And the louder we whoop up and the higher we leap, the more the audience likes us.
Page 2 - ... history of a town, in dramatic form, from the earliest period to some later point, forming a fitting climax. This is set forth in verse and prose of the most direct sort, and is embellished with choruses, songs, dances, marches, and every legitimate spectacular adjunct. It is acted in some beautiful and historical spot, which is left without any artificial embellishment whatever. It is acted by the citizens of the town themselves, their wives, their children and their friends .. . . It is...
Page 120 - In the thirteenth century it was the custom on Christmas Eve to have a threefold vesting: first of black, to signify the time before the declaration of the law to Moses ; on the removal of this, white, to indicate the days of prophecy ; and then red, to symbolise the love and charity to mankind that the coming of the Christ brought into the world.