1927 souvenir program

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Official souvenir program of the Portland Rose Festival June 13–18, 1927 featuring mammoth pageant Rosaria. The 1927 Rose Festival Program’s cover features an illustration depicting characters from the Pageant Rosaria, which was one of the festival’s major attractions. The Pageant Rosaria had been performed at prior Rose Festivals, but in 1927 it drew an audience of 43,238 over five performances. According to an Oregonian article on June 18, 1927, in conjunction with the success of other events drawing proceeds, the success of the Pageant Rosaria led to 1927 being the first year in the Rose Festival’s history in which it paid for itself, with enough funds leftover for the following year’s festival. Within the 1927 program for the Rose Festival is the program for the Pageant Rosaria, which includes the names of the entire cast and chorus, the lyrics to the poems and songs in each act of the play, and small photographic busts of the key actors, the playwright, Doris Smith, and the composers, Charles Wakefield Cadman and Harker S. Perkins. 

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  • 36 pages

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No copyright - United States (this work is believed to be free of known restrictions under copyright law in the United States).

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