The New England magazine . s the modern ship that thebuffeting of the storm itself can hardlydelay its passage, provided the naviga-tor can be sure of his submarine signal gives him thisassurance and its saving of life, prop- erty and time makes it, like the com-pass, the chart, and the wireless, amighty factor of the comfort andprofit of those who go down to the seain ships. When inter-ship signalingby this means shall have been per-fected — and there is promise that theday is near — the worst danger whichthe sea holds for big ships, that of col-lision during thick weather, wi
The New England magazine . s the modern ship that thebuffeting of the storm itself can hardlydelay its passage, provided the naviga-tor can be sure of his submarine signal gives him thisassurance and its saving of life, prop- erty and time makes it, like the com-pass, the chart, and the wireless, amighty factor of the comfort andprofit of those who go down to the seain ships. When inter-ship signalingby this means shall have been per-fected — and there is promise that theday is near — the worst danger whichthe sea holds for big ships, that of col-lision during thick weather, will bedefinitely conquered. The Pageant as a Popular FormHoliday Celebration of By RALPH DAVOL TO one who stands upon theacropolis at Athens lookingdown upon the magnificentruins of the theater of Diony-sius and picturing the scene when Peri- cles and the Flower of the Golden Agegathered under the open sky in theelaborately carved auditorium to wit-ness the Antigone of Sophocles pre-sented against a background of olive-. THE TAUNTON PAGEANT THE PAGEANT AS A POPULAR FORM OF CELEBRATION 343 lined roadways, the Pentelic hills andthe distant ^Egean Sea, to such anobserver harking back to our typicalAmerican playhouse, poorly venti-lated, gaudily furnished with plushcurtains, rococo embellishments, flap-seated chairs, electric bulbs, and nickel-in-the-slot allurements, the supremacyof Grecian civilization in the matter ofdramatic entertainments comes for-cibly home and our modern theaterseems cheaply artificial. Of coursethe climate is the secret of the unhappycomparison. Our winter theater-going season precludes an open-airauditorium; but during the summermonths an awakening appreciation ofthe Greek idea is apparent and someapproach to the high standard of thatday is found in the popular out-of-doorpageants of the past few years. Suffi-cient has already been accomplishedto warrant a prophecy that the torch-bearers of dramatic progress will findthis a most fruitful field to explo
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