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excited feeling about Rappahannock’s celebration of America’s birth. Perhaps too, it will make more understandable our unhappy disappointment that our personal participation in the Bicentennial pageant is not to be. (I should say here, that my use of the plural pronoun means Mrs. Pawley and me.)
We expect that it is widely known that both of us have spent a lifetime in the theatre and related arts. This, we are sure you realize, makes it all the more saddening that we cannot participate in this depiction of our country’s history, considered by the seers to be the most dramatic of all time in its enunciation and practice of personal freedom— the most colorful creation of character in human experience, expressing, as it does, the borning and evolvement of our Republic. In speaking of our frustration, Mrs. Pawley sums it up: “Every actor dies a little when he misses a good part, or script.”
And in this case from the professional view, the “script,” or the outline, for the pageant and its production as explained lovingly and devotedly by those two artists heading up the direction, Mr. and Mrs. Waldron O’Connor, goes a good way toward assuring us all of an exceptionally stirring enactment at Montpelier on the night of June 12.
The costumes alone will be worth the price of admission, especially as they will be visibly active in
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