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Just after cockcrow on the Friday of the Crucifixion, the betrayer of Jesus Christ learned that the Sanhedrin had condemned the Messiah, that he had been taken before Pontius Pilate. Unhappy Judas rushed to the priests, cried: "I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood." When they shrugged and said, "What is that to us?," Judas threw down his 30 pieces of silver "and departed, and went and hanged himself." So later wrote St. Matthew, whose Gospel contains a few more details than the others concerning the man of Kerioth in Judah. Still later, after everyone...
...this year the show would gross $15,000. Zion Passion Players pray to God before every rehearsal, every performance. Their prayers have not always prevented mishaps. Chief worry is whether the wires will hold fast in the smash climax of the Play's 27 scenes, the Ascension of Christ, whose role is played by a 24-year-old office-supplies salesman named Le Roy John Peacy. Once a wire broke and 30 angels and 250 onlookers nervously watched Mr. Peacy precariously gyrate heavenward in damaged harness. Passion Play performances have presented Director Taylor with a number of other headaches...
Connoisseurs of such Catholic Passion Plays as the Union City production would have noticed several striking differences at Zion. To begin with, Zion's Passion Play is not strictly a Passion Play, i. e., it does not concern itself solely with the agony and death of Christ, but is a sort of theatrical biography of The Savior, beginning with the Sermon on the Mount and concluding, unconventionally, with the spectacular, if mechanically precarious Ascension. Mary, Mother of Jesus, instead of being young and comely, is white-haired, stout and comely as played by Blanche Kessler, telephone operator...
Died. Paul Elmer More, 72, famed Princeton Humanist (Shelburne Essays, The Greek Tradition, Christ the Word), onetime (1909-14) editor of The Nation; after long illness; in Princeton...
...workshops and farm were rich exploring grounds, the grown-ups gave Gilbert & Sullivan operas, the children felt important doing part-time work making trap chains. It was not until he was 6 or 7 that he got a taste of Outside opinion from town boys who called them "Christ boys'' and "bastards." In the next few years the Outside closed in savagely. Stirpiculture seemed to the Community's neighbors no better than turpitude. In 1879, when Noyes was 9, his father fled to Canada to escape the clergy's clamor for his hide. His successor managed...