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Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)

WALTER HINES. Editor land, and since then many successful and diplomat. Born in 1855 at Cary, educated at Randolph- pageants have been given in those coun- , Virginia. He entered tries. The celebrations have usually work in 1880 as editor been held on several days in a week, and the proceeds have been used for public of a paper in St. Joseph (Mo.). Later purposes. he served on the editorial staff of the The equable climate of America has "New York World" and the "New York tended to the development of the pageant Evening Post." From 1890-1895 he was and historic tableaus have become the the editor of "The Forum," and later befashion, particularly at women's colcame editor of the "Atlantic Monthly" leges, during the milder half of the year. and the "World's Work." He was a In 1889 New York saw a national pagmember of the firm of Doubleday, Page, and Co. publishers, from 1899 until his eant reproducing "Dramatic Events in death in 1918. In 1913 President Wilson the History of New York." The carnivals of the Southern States have never appointed Page Ambassador to Great been without their pictorial representa- Britain, and both during the period of tions. At New York in 1914 was staged American neutrality and later particia America pageant who of the exhibited various nationalities of costumes and their national Tableaux of songs. large numbers various kinds, in which of children take part, have tennial become and increasing features of censimilar celebrations. The -Fulton Hudson celebration of 1909, the Lake Erie celebration of 1913, and the Star-Spangled Banner celebration of 1914, had also numerous dramatic features, and were conducted on a scale unknown in Europe. The course of the World War, particularly after the United States had entered into it, led to numerous celebrations intended to excite the warlike ardor of the people. In 1920 the events connected with the canonization of St. Jeanne d'Arc gave occasion to pageants in New York and elsewhere reproducing episodes in the career of the girl-warrior and expressive of sympathy with France as chief sufferer in the World War.