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Show Girls leave to take part in Cumorah show Susan Friel, daughter of Mrs. Mary Friel and Rosann LeRoy, daughter of Mrs. Pre-cilla Pre-cilla LeRoy, have gone to Palmyra, Pal-myra, New York, to take part in the Hill Cumorah pageant, July 27-31. Some 400 performers clad in colorful costumes of Hebraic, Greek, Roman and Aztec Indian In-dian design present this annual an-nual pageant on 25 stages on the vast slope of Hill Cumorah. The impressive spectacle presents, pre-sents, witti drama, music, sound effects, elaborate staging and brilliant lighting, the story of the rise and fall of an ancient an-cient American civilization as related in the Book of Mormon. The highlight of the drama shows the appearance of Christ to his followers in the New World. Joseph Smith, as he later related, re-lated, was led to Hill Cumorah and given the golden plates of the Book of Mormon which he translated. On the basis of these plates and other revelations, revela-tions, he organized the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1830. Today, the Church has more than 2,000,000 members around the globe. The pageant, by long tradi- tion, is kept free of any hint of commercialism. There are no charges for admission or for parking in fact, no charges of any kind. There is no hawking hawk-ing of souvenirs, programs or refreshments and donations are neither solicited nor accepted. The performers in the pageant, pag-eant, mostly members of the Mormon congregations in the eastern part of the United States, missionaries and college students of Utah, pay their own travel and living expenses. |
