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...beards, a megalomaniac, a religious fanatic who places propaganda stickers on hats and windows, a great actress, a press agent, Christus and Judas from Murenberg, a business man and his secretary seeking a quiet nook for illicit love; such is the assortment on the Twentieth Century going from Chicago to New York. Charles MacArthur and Ben Hecht, the authors of "Twentieth Century," have no doubt, been influenced by Grand Hotel; the scene of action jerks back and forth from compartment to compartment giving us an illusion of what happens on trains while we snore peacefully...
...program I Mennet Muffat Pastoral Capriccio Scarlatti Mennet Ravel Jesus Christus, Filius Dei Bach II Gnossienne Sabie Prelude Debussy La Soiree dans Grenade Debussy Danse de Pucto Debussy L'Apres-midi d'un fanne Debussy III Espano cani Unknown Tango Espagnole Albents El Polo Albents Canco danza. No V Mompon Homenaje a la joto Niu Malaguena Lecuena
Cologne papers' praise of Mr. & Mrs. Ford redoubled on discovery that they had done a "good deed" before leaving Oberammergau. Calling upon disappointed Anton Lang, replaced this year by another actor in the role of Christus, they told him to go and see the Ford representative in Munich. Whichever type of car Anton Lang picks out will become his free...
Adolph Fassnacht, "Christus" in the Freiburg Passion Play now touring the U. S. under the direction of impresario Morris Gest, sued his brother George, the play's Judas, for $100,000 for starting the Freiburg Passion Play in English. Recently in Denver "Christus" and his wife "Mary Magdalene" attacked "Judas," pushed his head through a box office window. All three were taken to jail...
...struggling players. When the sun did burst out it made fine theatre, illuminating the soggy mob (700 peasants) 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...