Holy Show

In Manhattan's vast Radio City Music Hall (movie palace), elaborate stage shows are put on by its super-goose-stepping Rockettes (chorus girls). Last week for the sixth year in a row the Music Hall staged a special Easter spectacle.

Light from blue-&-red stained-glass windows shone on a flower-banked altar. A yellowish glow lit a dozen show-girl Madonnas, each in a vast brocaded mantle, each in prayerful attitude before a golden sunburst resembling a sacred monstrance. Bearing candles, a procession of choristers in blue-&-white robes of ecclesiastical cut took their stand along the walls, and burst into song. One of the Madonnas, picked out by a spotlight, sang a contralto solo. Then the beautifully trained Rockettes--coiffed like nuns, wearing satiny white habits, carrying bunches of lilies--deployed across the cathedral-like set, lined up finally in the form of a cross. Easter week's ordinary movie-goers applauded and applauded in pious admiration.

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