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Article: `LIVING PICTURES' PAGEANT MAKES LAGUNA COME ALIVE.(TRAVEL)
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- Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
- Article date:
- June 23, 1996
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Byline: Carol Bidwell Daily News Staff Writer
They start out as just a bunch of ordinary people, headed to a volunteer summer job in their jeans and sweat shirts.
But the makeup and costume artists and set designers work their magic, the curtains part, the lights flash on. The ragtag volunteers are transformed into oversize bronze and marble sculptures, porcelain figurines, French impressionist paintings.
The nearly 280 volunteers are the human glue that, year after year since 1933, has held together the tableaux vivants - living pictures - that make up Laguna Beach's annual Pageant of the Masters.
During the pageant's nearly two-month ...