Pageants

Abstract

Collection contains scrapbooks, recordings of Convocation, mailing lists, medallions, music, Centennial pageant picture history and plans, newspaper clippings, marketing materials, brochures, correspondence, speeches, publications, lectures, alumni activities, committees, press releases, and intellectual history card files related to the Centennial celebration at the University of Denver from 1964.

Abstract Lilian White Spencer (1876-1953) was a playwright and poet who lived in Denver, Colorado as a child and again from 1918-1944. Spencer wrote plays, reviews of plays, script revisions, poetry and also translated French literature. She was best known in Denver for pageant writing. She wrote The Pageant of Colorado, an epic drama, which was performed May 1927 with a cast of 1,500 as part of a celebration commemorating the opening of the Moffatt Tunnel. Her papers include pen and ink drawings...