People

By Guy D. Garcia

In the beginning there was Cecil B. DeMille's The Ten Commandments. Now the biggest combination of show-biz and biblical spectacle may be The Glory of Christmas--A Living Nativity, which has been staged at the Rev. Robert Schuller's Crystal Cathedral in Garden Grove, Calif., every Christmas season since 1981. This year's three-times-nightly, 75-minute re-enactment of the birth of Jesus boasts Singer Debby Boone, 29, as the Virgin Mary, plus a cast of more than 400 that includes ten flying angels, four white horses, a donkey and three camels. Boone, who is herself expecting this spring, agreed to do the part "because I think it's one of the most important stories that can ever be told." But she reports that one moment in the show did not light up her life: when she accidentally knelt in some "well-positioned" camel dung. Sighs Boone: "Whoever said never work with children or animals definitely had some real wisdom there."