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Show Park Officials Anticipate Large Easter Crowd Many Attend the Rehearsal Held Last Sunday; Dixie College Choir To Open Program At 4:40 p.m. Every detail of arrangemems for the annual Zion Easter Pageant, to be held in Zion National Park at sunset on Easter Sunday, has. been completed, according tot Henry E. Petersen, general chairman. chair-man. With a promise of excellent weather and enthusiastic interest in the Pageant being shown by everyone, this year's performance promises to be the outstanding: Easter Service in the West. A total of 4440 visitors registered register-ed at the park last Easter, when; the pageant was first presented, and this year with better weather conditions assured, the number should be trebled. Wm. H. Manning has announced announc-ed that Mrs. Hazel Granger, formerly for-merly of Cedar City and now of Salt Lake City, and Harold H. Bennett, also of Salt Lake City will be the soloists for the pageant, page-ant, and Earl J. Bleak, of St. George, will play the trumpet solo. Initial Rehearsal The initial rehearsal of the concert con-cert and pageant was held in the park Sunday, April 10. Moving-pictures Moving-pictures were taken by Fox Movietone, of the concert, pageant, page-ant, crowd, and some of the scenic features. According to Dr. D. Elden Beck, a very cretiable showing show-ing was made. The following members of the (Continued on page flye) Easter Pageant (Continued from first page) Dixie college faculty were present and assisted in the choir: Ann P. Robinson, Emma Nielson, Dr. D. Elden Beck, and Joseph W. McAllister, Mc-Allister, director. The sacred concert will be given in the Tabernacle Sunday morning at 8:30 for the three St. George wards. News Pictures Taken During the rehearsal Sunday the pageant was filmed by Fox Movietone cameramen. The films will be used in the regular news release this week, and will be circulated cir-culated in all parts of the United States and in many foreign countries. coun-tries. The company spent more than S600 on the filming of the pageant, according to Al Brick, cameraman and Warren McGarth, recording engineer, who were in charge. The pageant will start just as the sun is setting, which is calculated calcu-lated to be at 5:40 p.m. and will come to a climax just at dusk. The concert of sacred music, to be given by St. George and the Dixie college, will start just one hour before the opening of the pageant, at 4:40 p.m. The staging of the pageant is separate from the regular administration ad-ministration of the Park, so the regular fee of $1.00 per car must be paid on entering the park. This is the regular annual fee, and entitles the owner of the car to enter any time during the year. If the fee has been previously paid this year, if will of course, not be charged again. The pageant site is just three-fourths three-fourths of a mile from the park entrance, so that any who so desire de-sire may leave their car outside the entrance and walk up to the services. |