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...state holiday in Massachusetts, on the anni versary of Paul Revere's ride. This year the marathon was held a day late because Patriots' Day fell on Good Friday...
...Oberammergau, in the foothills of the Bavarian Alps, plans for next spring's revival of the world-famed Passion Play had hit a snag. Stars Alois Lang (the Christus), Anni Rutz (the Virgin Mary) and Willy Bierling (St. John) had been refused American Military Government permission to play their respective roles and were being held in Allied prisons as active members of the Nazi party. But one leading character, Hans Zwink, a regular member of the anti-Nazi movement, was ready to go on stage. His role: Judas...
Prospects for 1946 appear none too bright. Said Anni Rutz (who has twice played the Virgin Mary): "We lost more than 100 men in the war and new characters must be trained for the roles. Willy Bierling, who played John, is now a prisoner of war in the United States. Many women have married since 1934." (In most roles, married women are barred. Ritto Kosch, daughter of the town druggist, slated to play Mary Magdalene in 1940, has since disqualified herself by acquiring a husband and two children.) Sure of a role is Hans Zwink, Judas in 1934, who follows...
...cast: fat Lauritz Melchior sang the title rôle; Soprano Maria Muller of the Metropolitan Opera was an able Elizabeth, but (said a U. S. correspondent) "her impersonation wanted in true virginal tenderness and womanliness." The Venusberg scene did not represent "frenzied eroticism" but "revue calisthenics." Venus (Contralto Anni Helm) was "tender, but in a maternal way." Nevertheless the audience was enthusiastic, applauded (mostly for Toscanini) a full ten minutes...
...clamoring for Pontius Pilate to order the Christ crucified. Comment at the village inns that night and on trains back to Berlin ran on the dignity and beauty of the new Christus (Alois Lang), the bewildered aspect of the old Judas (Guido Mayr), the rosy simplicity of the Virgin (Anni Rutz). Reported Alexander Woollcott to the New York Times: "The play triumphed even over the village of Oberammergau . . . uproar, bedlam, mean scramble . . . seats reserved and paid for at a distance may not always be had at the last moment without a dash of bribery. . . . Americans buying something to take home...