 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...  The Art of Producing Pageants - Page 3by Esther Willard Bates - 1925 - 269 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1910 - 866 pages
...powers. WHAT IS A PAGEANT? LOUIS N. PARKER English Pageant Producer A pageant is a part of the great Festival of Thanksgiving to Almighty God for the past...spectacular entertainment. The actual pageant should be — in the case of my pageants it always has been — opened and closed by great commemorative services... | |
 | Robert Withington - Pageants - 1920 - 500 pages
...England, but also in America. Writing in 1910, Mr. Parker had called a pageant, " part of the great Festival of Thanksgiving to Almighty God for the past...spectacular entertainment. The actual pageant should be — in the case of my pageants it always has been — opened and closed by great commemorative services... | |
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