LDS Faithful Throng To Palmyra Pageant Standard July 20th 1957 Several members of the LDS Church from the Ogden area will be included among the thousands who will attend the annual famous Hill Cumorah Mormon Pageant at Palmyra, N.Y., Aug. 1, 2 and 3. They will attend the pageant during a vacation which will also include visits to other scenes of early LDS church history. With the premiere of a completely new musical score, new and rewritten scenes, new costumes and an augmented cast, the 1957 presentation of the annual pageant, “America’s Witness for Christ,” promises greatly to enhance its prestige as America’s largest and most impressive drama. Last year’s attendance record, when 70,000 persons from every state in the union and every country in Europe attended, is expected to be broken this year. This will be the 20th anniversary of the inauguration of the unique pageant under the stars produced by some 600 Mormons. This is also the 130th anniversary of the year that Joseph Smith was given possession by the Angel Moroni of the golden plates of the Book of Mormon of which this pageant is a beautiful and moving portrayal. The complete crew of the 1957 edition of the musical drama will total 300, ail of whom pay their travel expenses and their living expenses during the three days they are at Palmyra. These include 115 students of the Brigham Young University at Provo, who will journey to Palmyra by bus; 165 young men and women who are contributing two years of service as missionaries in the Eastern States Mission and 40 members of the church in the vicinity.