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PREPARING FOR THIS YEAR'S PRESENTATION.

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Bavaria and the rest of South Work on the new theatre which, Į Even after its initial production in- Germany are well aware by now because of its 5,000 seats, and its Oberammergau in 1634, the text of. that this is the year of the Oberam electrically-operated stages, is con the play was materially altered;

Again a century later extensive mergau Passion Play. Govern-sidered one of the largest and most

offices, traffic and travel modern in the world, has been and fundamental changes were- bureaux and business Inen

are virtually completed. The building made in the play when it was vir- making snal preparations to enrestards on the same site that the tually rewritten by a priest of the for the many thousands of visitors Passion Play theatre has occupied Ettal-Monastery-He-set-the spok who are expected to visit the little since 1830, when the first stage was en parts in verse of 12-syllable lines, town in the Bavarian Alps during built. Before 1530, when the my-embroidered the theme with alle the presentation of the age-old stery play was primarily a local gorical figures and songs, changed drama. In all, provisions are be affair and attracted no outside the instrumental music and intro- made for. approximately visitors, it was given in other duced many devices then familiar 180,000 guests.

buildings used primarily for other to the Italian operatic stage. All Outwardly, of course, there is not purposes or else was presented out-this, however, was cut bodily out of the play at the beginning of the evidence of this activity excepting of-doors. in so far as it concerns the im- On Sunday, April 27, Cardinal 19th Century when another Ettal provement of the highway connec-voa Faulhaber is 'to go to Cheram-priest, Father Ottmar Weiss, wrote South German cities and Obegam- the new theatre. On May. 11 the a strict agreement with the biblical mergau. Most of the automobile first public performance is to be account of the life of Christ, there- roads are being repaired; while a given, and from then until Septemby making full use of the dramatic few are being entirely rebuilt.ber 28 performances will be staged Motor roads leading out of Ober- every few days. Extra perform ammergauto nearby places of in ances are to be given from time terest, such as that running to the to time for the inhabitants of the famous monastery of Ettal, are, neighbourhood, and tickets for these likewise being resurfaced.

will not be available to the general Apart from these preparations, public. Incidentally, the Oberam the official travel bureaux have mergaú committee has had to deny been arranging for automobile several times in the past few tours from Munich to Cheraminer months published reports to the gau, with sidetrips to Ettal, effect that tickets to all the regular Linderhof, Carmisch-Partenkirchen performances have already been and other places, The German sold out. This, they assert, is un- National Railways have completed true, there being plenty of tickets on hand for May, June and plans for direct railway vog- nections between Munich and Ober. 1 September, although there has been ammergau during the Passion Play an unusually heavy demand for season. Ordinarily one must get tickets to the July and August off the regular train at Murnau performances. and there board a mountain-climb- ing electric train to get to Ober- ammergau. It had also been hoped to be able to connect Berlin, Munich and Oberammergau by air, but the Inck of a suitable landing field at the latter place made this scheme impracticable.

This Year's Christus.

History of the Play." The Passion Play has not been the same prystery play throughout the 200 years of its history; albeit, despite its various changes, the 1930 presentation will be much closer in the simplicity of its form and the coherence of its movement to the original of the 17th Century than was the elaborately allegorical Passion Play of the early 18th Century.

elements fundamental to the story of Christ, which Father Weiss o lieved needed no artificial aid or adornment. There have been many changes since the time of Weiss, but these have all been of a minor nature, and have not substantially altered the text as he wrote it.

Origin of the Vow,

Oberammergauers

The

were

among the first to present & luy performance of the Passion Play. In the year 1833 when a pestilence, brought in by the armies parti cipating in the 30 Years War, swept over Central Europe, it re- duced the population of Oberam- morgau by half or more. Survivors in the village made a solemn Tow that if God would apare them from further ravages of the plague, they would present the Passion Play every 10 years. This they have dono with unfailing fidelity since 1834. In the first 5 years the play was produced in the fourth year of each decade, but since 1880, with one or two unavoidable exceptions, it has been performed in the tenth year of every decade.

swerve

Although the Oberammergauers have been faithful to their vow, there have been times when political In the Passion Play village it- self there has been much. quiet

opposition threatened to then involuntarily from their pur- though obvious activity. Rehears- als of late have been held almost The oldest text of this religious pose. In 1770 the Electoral govern- daily. It has been reported that drama is found in a manuscriptment of Bavaria, under the in Alois. Lang has been more than of the Augustine monastery of fluence of the currently ascendant satisfactory to the managing com- Saint Ulrich dated in the 15th Rationalist school, forbade the pro- millee in filling the role of Chris Century. As given at that time the duction of all plays dealing with tus, to which he was elected last drama was purely an ecclesiastical the Passion of Christ. A delega October after his distant cousin, mystery play presented by the tion was sent from Oberammergau Anton Lang, the Christus of the monks on certain boly days. It has to the Elector, who was ultimately three previous presentations, had been described as a sort of secular induced to revoke the prohibition, naked to be relieved because of and divine service and worship com- for. their village. In 1910 the his age. Other leading players in-bined. Patently it was of "neces- Passion Play was again ordered to clude Melchior Breitsainter assity simple in form and in pre-be suppressed, this time for "cultur Pilate, Peter Randel as. Peter, sentation, but when it was lateral reusons, but the Crown Prince, as Mary and Hansi Preisinger as villages in Bavaria and Austria for for Oberammergau and the decree" -Mary-Magdalena........

production. its scope was enlarged, as rescinded. 2

LANE CRAWFORD'S Guida Mayer as Judas, Anni Rutz taken up by the residents of various later. King Ludwig. 1. interceded

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Boxing: Hermes . Somersets, p.m. Queen's Theatre: The Trial of Mary' Dugan."

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