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OPENING AT OBERAMMERGAU,
ÜBERAMMERGAo, May 9th.
A uhurus of sixty men aud muiduna in many-hued robes filed on the huge stage her to-day. led by a herald, and proceeded to sing the explanation to the initial tableân of the Passion Play, representing the expui- sion of Adam and Ere from Paradim.
For the first sines 1910 the famous religions drama was enacted this morning in a full-dress rehearsal before an audience of more than 4,000 persons, who sat in im pressivo silence.
The first regular performance will take place on Sunday.
The 1922 Passion Play is almost entirely a cow production, except for the principal performers, produced at lavish expense. The first of the famous urusa scones waa u fascinating picture.
Probably 400 villagers-men and women, handsome garls, long-haired youths, little children Bad even habiée-with arra uprained in welcome and way waving groen palms, sang and cheered under per fect stage management. Max Reinhardt, the wizard of Germán stageeraft, could not have flung the scene on the stage canvas more cleverly,
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Then came the Srst big moment, when Anton Lang as the Christ triumphantly entered Jerusalem, mounted on an axe, amid the ecstatic plaudits of the populace. You suddenly reverted to twentieth cen tury, reality, for only yesterday you had seen this Biblical ass browsing in the barkyard of Anton Lang's pretty home. Aho you had found Lang's shop on the mame premises, woll stocked with speciurens of the potter's art, all said to have been made by the cluster's own band and l bearing his antograph on the back or bottom.
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To return to the Passion Play : All the interest centred on the pivotal figure of Apton lang. He is playing the role of Christ for the third time; but he no longer looks as he does in the picture post cards. He seems too old for the part, which he first played twenty-two years ago,
As the play went on the warmed up to something like the early acting that made bin famous. Almost imperceptibly the | years socmed to drep from him till be Sitted
into one's preconceived picture.
After the scene of the scourging of the money-changer from the temple, that of the Prieste, scribes and Phariseen sitting in conclave attract attention. It is richly, even arishly, staged, with all the ultra-modern stage properties and devices, justifying the oluaica that the venerable miracle-play has, to some extent, fol'on a "vietim" to, modern stage realism. Nothing is left to the imagination.
The staging and stage mingenient ar mugnificent could't be beat!" a hardened American from Paris was moted to exclaim; but by so much the Passino Play" bas lost its character of a simple peasant play, played by and theoretically for peasants.
But as the play approaches the Crucif xjon scenu its peasant play character.comes Font more strongly and the performance rizes to a high level of superb'orcellence, and a dramatic change comes over the audience.
Such netable examples are u]} the big Jadus scenes. In several Jong auliloquies Guido Mayr ELS Judas proved himself a really great actor of professional calibre easily the best actor in the whole production. Conspicuous, 100, is Paul Rendl in the part of the Magdalen. Her almost purely classic facial beauty and fall, strous, long brown hair made the arinting scene a memorable picture. So, too, was the farewell from Bethany with Martha Veit as Mary. Magnificently successful, alao, was the Last Supper shune, with the characters, grouped as in Leonardo da Vinci's famous picture.
Americana revisting berammergau will find it a new place, a model spotires village Today it hums with beehive activity, trying to put the finishing touches on its preparations before the tourist fide wetsin next week. There is a plethora of booths, hocks and shops copiously stocked with standard lines of souvenirs.
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SHORT SKIRTS ́OR LONG? HUNGARIAN WOMAN SUGGESTS LEGAL LIMIT.
goods or services. If Oberammergau hoida At one of the committee meetings of to its present purpose, dollar apenders the International Council of Women at will find it one of the rare breathing spots The Hague, last month, Frau Rosenberg, dealing with the work of the Hungarian
in Europe, datively free from the haunt. Women's Council, said that they had ing fear of being done.
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proposals before The Berlin Government is bitterly blam. brought two ed for not doing everything possible to Minister-one to get the appointment of facilitate the visits of Americans and other and the other to have a legal limit for women police to control women's dresses, foreigners to the Passion Play, and if the women's skirts, which should not bo season proves a failure it will be laid at the higher than two inches from the ground. doors of the Republican Berlin Government The Minister replied with an inquiry by the Oberammerganers, who are not only as to bow they proposed to control thiso Bavarians, butbred-in-the-bone Monarchists, things, on which they urged the neces The pious villagers are pinning their hopes sity of Polizei Matronen armed with on Providence and the precedent of measuring sticks.
The Minister again, previous profitable seasons. As an official rejected the proposal, with the "exeuse publication quintly phrases it, no mat that he was not able to find the news- fer bow discouraging the outlook or "bow sury funds. great the difficulties, Providence has al
ways made the Passion Play redound to Most of the costumes, properties and the reputation and prosperity of the com-scenery are also new, despite the present munity."
high costs. But we are hopeful and will do
The community has taken on itself a our best to make the season a success. We heavy burden, to be sure-one and one-half have been rehearsing daily, even in cold, million marka-to make the production rain and snow, since Christmas. We're possible. The ball had to be almost.com. hearse so often because this is not a play pletely renovated and the stage 'rebuilt, you can just learn by heart. You have to
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