The book English Pageantry An Historical Outline volume 2 was written by author Withington, Robert, 1884- Here you can read free online of English Pageantry An Historical Outline volume 2 book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is English Pageantry An Historical Outline volume 2 a good or bad book?
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Mr. Parker states * that the Sherborne Pageant made a profit of $5, 000; that at Warwick, $15, 000; one he wrote for the Duchess of Albany, $10, 000 in only two performances ; and that at Bury St. Edmunds, $7, 000. The Dover Pageant - in many respects the finest spectacle of all resulted in a loss, for various reasons. Mr. Parker strongly deprecates giving a pageant for any definite charitable object, 2 or to make money. THE BLIGHT OF COMMERCIALISM Though the movement is so new in England, Mr. ...Parker points out that, even in 1914, it had already begun to decline. This, he says, is largely due to commercialism. The towns giving pageants usually made money, so other 1 In New Boston (Nov. , 1910), p. 298. 2 The Church Pageant of 1909 was, according to Mr. Parker, a contradiction, for it was given by one class: the Army Pageant of 1910 was given under the auspices of the Army Charity. The profits of the Gloucestershire Pageant were to go to the Veterans Relief Fund (see title-page of the Book of Words).
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