Word: antonic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President and Mrs. Coolidge held the annual reception for the Judiciary; Mr. Coolidge invited Herr Anton Lang, Passion Play Christus, to be a guest at the White House when the Players are in Baltimore next March; the Coolidges attended a performance of Hamlet, by John Barrymore; over 100 women of the Directorate of the General Federation of Women's Clubs called on Mrs. Coolidge in a body; Mr. and Mrs. Coolidge were guests of the Secretary of the Treasury and Miss Ailsa Mellon at an entertainment with the Senators from Pennsylvania, and a group of Philadelphia and Manhattan politicians, financiers...
...Players was simple and except in one or two instances singularly uninspired. Anton Lang is a simple old man, and as he stood behind a railing surrounded by crowds while he autographed his photographs, he looked rather bewildered and unhappy...
...Anton Lang was first chosen to play the Christus in 1900. The selection of artists is often determined by physical resemblance to the characters as idealized in religious paintings. No false beards or other make-up are permitted. The man who plays the Christus must have strength as well as dramatic ability, for the cross which he must carry for 15 minutes weighs 150 pounds, and, in addition, he remains for 20 minutes fastened to the cross. There is said to be danger of heart-failure each time an actor essays this scene. Lang played this part...
...Exhibition. It is, however, not as players but as craftsmen that Anton Lang and his fellows have crossed the Atlantic. Ober-Ammergau has been reduced to poverty. In 1922, despite the decline in the value of the mark, the villagers would not increase their prices. They gave three days' board with admittance to the play for 90c. Americans came to their rescue, provided them with orders for woodcarving, etc., and have now arranged for them to exhibit and sell their art work in America...
...Oberammergau's peasants to America. These simple folk have always been so absolutely apart from the outside world and its cares that even the most cosmopolitan person cannot but feel that the Passion Play and its actors belong only to Oberammergau, and that if the world wants to see Anton Lang and his fellow-actors it must go to the little German village to do so. But like the remainder of the German poor, the actors of Oberammergau find themselves forced to rely largely upon the "generous Americans...