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London, April 16.
An attempt will be made in September to recapture America's Cup by the Fifteenth challenger. Endeavour, which has a b.ue hull and gold salls and was launched at Portsmouth to-day with ap- propriate ceremonial which Was broadcast to America. She is own ed by the aero-magnate, Mr, Tom Sopwith, who hopes to steer" her during the races. Mrs. Sopwith will probably be a member of the crew.
OBERAMMERGAU
IMPORTANT CHANGES IN PASSION PLAY
Revised Text And Modified Scenic Effects
[Special to the "Hoar Kong Dally "quent years the text has been re-
„Press" (Copyright)] Habitues of Oberammergau, .who will visit the picturesque Bavarian mountain village this summer for of the the special performances
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The salls are made from Sudanese Egyptian cotion,
During her trials the endeavour will race with the all metal Yacht Pussion Play which are to be given one may safely assume that the
Velsheda.-Reuter.
SCOTS MATCH KING DIESTM
As His Holiday Ends
(Special Air-Mail Service.)
Sir George "Paton, a
of
in commemoration of the tercen- tenary of the first performance in 1834. ' will: witness a somewhat modified presentation
the famous mystery play depicting the lust days on earth and the death of our Lord according to the Gospel narrative. Important changes are contemplated with regard to the There is no denying the fact
text.
that
the outward acope
of the
Passion Play had been enlarged to such an extent, that, despite the interincation of the dramatic ae- tlon, it was beginning to lose much or its spiritual appeal. This AP peal, which for many years had at- wasted 'people from all corners of the word to Oberammergau, was
London, April 1.
Arundoubtedly based on the inspiring faith in which the original play nad been conceived centuries ago werence and the simple dignity with which it was presented by the villagers.
Greenock, and chairman and manng ing director of the British Match Corporation and of Bryant and day, Ltd, recently on board the P. and O. liner Maloja. He was 74.
The news was received in London in a wireless message from Lady Paton.
Sir George and Lady Pason were returning from a holiday in the South of France, and his death took place just as the liner was in the Thames estuary. So far as was known Sir George had been in good health while on holiday.
Some months ago the elders or the community, under the leader- ship of the present burgomaster Raimund Lang, decided to entrust one of the, foremost Catholle welt- ers and scholars in Germany, Dr. Leo Weismantel, with the task of Sir George William Paton, who was taking charge of this year's pro-` the second son of the late Mr. Archi-duction, of making all necessary bald Paton, of Greenock and Innellan, changes, and of drawing up plans was born in Greenock in 1859 and was for the next regular season in 1940, educated at Jedburgh Academy and Greenock Academy.
In Sugar Trade,
The vow of atonement.
peatedly modified, but, much of the mysticism of the original draft has been retained up to the present time. These remnants of an anti- uated religious conception tend to obscure the dramatic action, and
new version prepared by Dr. Weismantel will in this respect, prove to be a change. for the bet- ter. The first interruption of the regular decennial performances of the Play occurred in 1674 when the dates were changed so as to fall
In 1870 the
in decimal years. Franco-Prussian War intervened, and in 1920 the performance had to be postponed in consequence of the wholesale starvation of Ger- many due to the post-war block- ade. The performance was finally given two years later under the most unpropitious circumstances and in the face of inflation and general umpoverishment. which kept the attendance down. This reverse was, however, amply made up for by the extraordinary success than 300,000 visitors from all parts of the globe flocked to Oberammer
au to see the Passion Play. The open-air stage -of the Passion Play Theatre had been rebuilt for that year, and the seating ca pacity of the theatre increased to sixty-three 5.300. No less than performances were given, and the theatre was regularly sold out.
of the season of 1930, when more
Training the Players.
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This year's performances will begin on May 27th and will last til September 23rd. Rehearsals are already in full swing, indeed, it may be truly sald that they never rease in Oberammergau. Only ha-it
He was for some years in the sugar trude in Greenock as a partner in the firm of Messrs. Koas, Corbett und Co., sugar merchants and commission agents, with his brother, the late Colonel A. J. Paton.
At that time he resided in Innellan and Death
to the vow to enact the Passion Klara Mayr as Mary Magdalene,
of Christ every ten The business is still carried on
"Oberammergauer Greenock by his nephew, Mr. A. G. years. The Paton, but ita activities have now Geubdespiel" ("Play of the Oper- changed to that of a travel agency, ammergau Vow) was written by About 38 years ago Sir George severed Dr. Leo Welsmantel and will be his connection with the firm and given as a sort of prologue to the became associated wich the old Passion Play. The "Gelubdesplel" Diamond Match Company, and when is based on the succinct account he rose to be its managing director of the occurrences contained in the competition in the matchmaking | village chronicle. It appears that industry in this country culminated during the Thirty Years War, the in a war," the outcome of which was that Sir George assumed control of Bryant and May, Ltd, the biggest industrial combination of its kind in the United Kingdom.
A special and novel feature of tives of the village make up the the jubilee year at Oberammergau cast. The principal players in this year's performances will be Alois will be the presentation of a play Lang as Christ. Annt Rutz 43 the telling the story of the events three Virgin Mary, Peter Rendl as St. hundred years ago which led up Peter, Johann Zwink as Judas
This monopoly in the industry he
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Agenta acters in the play-not counting | Hong Kong, 10th April, 1934. “ the orchestra and the chorus-and roughly one-fourth of the village population has to be drafted for the performances. In the years intervening between the presenta tions of the Passion Play, various classical dramas are rehearsed and scourge had descended on this retraining the prospective players in gion of the Bavarian Alps. It wrought havoc all around, and en- tire communities perished, Whe already at that time, was a thriv people of Oberammergau, which,
the period. cautions to avoid
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For most of his life Sir George took the deepest and most active interest in local public, social, benevolent, and religious work. He was one of the most unassuming and unostentations of men.
Aldershot.
Guards were pusted at vantage- general appearance of the char-
acters which they will have to portray. Wigs or facial make
strictly prohibited. The deep reverence with which all the players approach their task really makes the Oberammergau. Passion Play what it is to-day-namely, the highest example of popular art, of art for and by the people.
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points in the valley, and no strangers were admitted to the village. Yet despite the vigilance up are of the guards, the 'lavisible enemy found his way into the peaceful valley, "A native of Oberammer gau, Kari Schisier by name had. for some reason or other, left his home and family and gone to live at the neighbouring village of Es- His earliest experience of public chenlohe, where he was employed life we as a member of the County to nurse and bury the numerous Council of Argyll and chairman victims of the plague, When he of the Cowal District Committee was finally struck down himself, in
The most convenient point of from 1805 to 1898, and on taking the autumn of 1832, he decided to departure for a visit to Oberam- up residence in London about 30 years make his way back to Oberammer-mergau is Munich, whence the ago he began active association with countless public bodies and organiza sau to get a last glimpse of his journey by train takes about two tions.. He was
governor of the wife and children He dragged hours. The trip from Munich may mountain also be made by motor coach and Coopers' Company's School during the himself over a secret war period, president of the Cale-path to his native village, and by a route which will take in some donian Society of London from 1913 under cover of night, succeeded in of the beauty spots in the vicinity, to 1919, and chairman of the Bt. evading the guards and entering such as the romantic Castle bail General Cargo remaining undelivered SERVICE TO READERS Andrew's Bcottish Soldiers Home at his house, where he died shortly Neuschwanstein, the magnificent afterwards. With him the dread- Ettal Monastery, and "Garmisch- He was vice-president of Royal Scoted scourage had entered the vil-Partenkirchen. In view Indigent Scots and deputy chairman half the population died of it.
covers an entire day, visitors are ad- of the Royal Caledonian Schools. He
vised to make their arrangements member of the Poplar Advisory Distress grew dall greater. The so as to arrive at Oberammergau at Committee for Juvenile Unemploy village elders or what was left of least one day previous to the per- 14th April, 1934. ment and for a year its chairman, and them, "had vainly tried various fórmance they intend to witness, later a member of the London ways and means to combat the and to leave on the day following Advisory Council for Juvenile Unem
epidemic. They finally came to that performance. Foreigners will ployment.
the conclusion that it was a vlaita- find a prolonged stay in Oberam- tion of Divine wrath, and they mergau very pleasant. The sur decided to offer God sin atonement rounding landscape is one of ex- and It will, so that He should deliver the com- ceptional beauty, munity from this terrible affliction, moreover, be interesting to watch They went to the church, and here, the villagers at work on the pro- altar, they duction of those highly artistic kneeling before the grasped each other's hand and woodcarvings for which they have took a solemn oath that they long been famous. Oberammergau would henceforth "keep the Trage itself is one of the most pictures- dy of the Passion Week every ten que villages in Germany. Almost years." According to the records every house is covered with frescoes "no one dled in Oberammergau of dating, most of them, from the the plague from that hour on." eighteenth century. There is an The following year, the villagers Art Museum containing wonder- of Poplar. Ho was an alder of St. staged their first performance of fat specimen of the woodcarvers The text used art of past centuries as well as
ATLANTIQUE MYSTERY REOPENED tiah Corporation for Aged; and inge, and in the course of one year length of each performance which
Special Air-Mall Service.. London April 1
Women in Goal In an exclusive interview with Fresh sensations. followed hard the Sunday Chronicle, M, Benon, upon each other yesterday in the the French examining magistrate drama of the vast international in charge of the case, declared: espionage plot.
"The secret police of the whole The Sunday Chronicle learns world are on the alert. Scotland that French detectives are now Yard is helping and we have made working on discoveries taking the great progress." spying gang with the burning of Following intense police and se- cret service activity. In London late the two French liners.
last night, the Sunday Chronicle (1) L'Atlantique, the 42,000-ton learns that disclosures, which will luxury vessel.which caught fire and reveal full detalls of the vast in- was gutted in the English Chan- ternational system of espionage with headquarters in Britain. arc (2) The George Philippar, the now imminent.
While these inquiries into the Messageries Maritimes liner, which burnt out and sank in the Indian amazing ruminations of the ea Ocean with a loss of 40 passengers pionage ring are proceeding, the Yet another sensation was caus- group of men and women alleged. necting the ring even with the in the work are lodged in the disappearance in mysterious cir- French prisons, Sante and La Pet cumstances of Mr. Reginald Arthur ite Roquette, awaiting trial aNG Lee, Acting British Consul-Gener constantly undergoing thira de
gree cross-examination. al at Marseilles in 1930.
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Model Factories. During the war he was chairman of the Administrative Committee of the Match Control Board, and he was a member of the council of both the Empire Forestry Association and the Industrial Welfare Society,
All the factories under his control were world-famed 'model workshops, and he took a paternal interest in the individual welfare of his many thous ands of employees. Every Christmas be organised an entertainment and day of feasting for the poor children Columba's Church of Scotland, Pont the Passion Play.
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|-bastian -- Wild, written in 1566. Passion Plays of 1882, and 1870. Bir George. Paton. was 1888 to Etta Tatham, daughter of the Very likely, the monks of Ettal The State School of Woodcarving. late Mr. Edward Henderson, of Edin Abbey, near Oberammergau, had where the modern art of wood- bargh. There were two children of supplied, the villagers with a re-carving is taught, is likewise the marriage, a son and daughter,vised copy of the play. In subse-worth visiting
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