Pageant (magazine)
Pageant was a 20th-century monthly magazine published in the United States from November 1944 until February 1977. Printed in a digest size format, it became Coronet magazine's leading competition, although it aimed for comparison to Reader's Digest.
Pageant was founded and first published by Hillman Periodicals. Publisher Alex L. Hillman saw Pageant as a prestigious change to his magazine line that included true confessions (Real Romances, Real Story, Real Confessions), crime titles (Crime Detective, Real Detective, Crime Confessions) and comic books, and he went to press for a 500,000 print run on his first issue. With an emphasis on visuals throughout, Pageant often mixed glamour photo features with informative text on a wide range of subjects.
Macfadden Publications purchased Pageant in 1961. Pageant ceased publication with the February 1977 issue.
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“What helps it now, that Byron bore,
With haughty scorn which mock’d the smart,
Through Europe to the Aetolian shore
The pageant of his bleeding heart?
That thousands counted every groan,
And Europe made his woe her own?”
—Matthew Arnold (1822–1888)