Show i Bests Attended Cumorah Pageant KAMAS KAMAS- Mr and Mrs Shanley Best have returned from an Eastern tour where they visited the Worlds World's Fair and saw a n performance of the famed Mormon Hill Cumorah I pageant Americas Witness for Christ I IThe The event was years after atter the first report of the miraculous revelation of Hill Hili Cumorah The B st's B-st's st's joined with thousands of I 1 Mormons and imd other interested d spectators who returned to the i hill hUl for the outdoor pageant in I year which dramatizes the stories from the Book of Mor Mor- I mon mOil II j I jI I Utilizing 25 stages elaborate lightning and sound systems and anda a a. cast of nearly th the regal I ceremonies pagan extravagances I I 1 I wars war'S and rebellions re- re re 1 I in the book unfolded in an I area the size of a football field i an n the slopes of the foot high The original music for the cant ant was performed by the Utah I State Symphony augmented by 1 I II I the he Mormon Tabernacle organ of pipes and a voice choir The v volunteer cast was composed composed com com- posed of young Mormon missionaries mission mission- I aries college students from Brigham Brigham Brig Brig- ham Young University and mem memo I j t bers of Mormon congregations congregations' I j from throughout the eastern astern United Unit ed rI States Stats ley were arrayed in inauthentic inauthentic authentic recreations of Hebrew Or Grek ek Roman and Mayan cos coso 1 i umes I Dr Howard I I. I Hansen a a. drama professor at ai BYU has directed the spectacular since its inception In addition to 10 his cast Hansen had the services of about oth oth- other othar ar er r volunteers rs to perform behind behind- the s tasks task Facilities used in inthe inthe the production cost the church about Participants pay I their own expenses while at the pageant and nd no admission was I charged nor collection taken from the audience 1 I I |