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...were received by the President. An address made on their behalf by the Chairman of the American reception committee carried a political appeal for assistance to Germany. Mr. Coolidge, angered, abbreviated the interview by ordering other visitors admitted. Later the President sent a letter to Anton Lang (the Christus), explaining that, much though he had enjoyed meeting the Passion Players, it is not permissable for a President to receive public addresses from people of other nations...
...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...
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...
...From depths of woe (Psalm 130). Choral Prelude, Sigfrid Karg-Elert. 4. Come, Redeemer of our race (Veni, Redemptor gentium). Choral Prelude, J. S. Bach 5. Now praise we Christ (A solis ortus cardine). Choral Prelude, J. S. Bach. 6. Christ who freed our souls from danger. Jesus Christus nostra salus, John Huss. 7. Christ lay in death's dark prison. Choral Prelude, J. S. Bach. 8. Come, Holy Spirit, come (Veni, Sancte Spiritus). 9. Nunc Dimittis. Choral Prelude, J. S. Bach. 10. The Lord's Prayer. Choral Prelude, Samuel Scheidt, 1587-1659. 11. Sanctus. 12. From heaven above...
...collection is extraordinarily complete, and some of the few gaps are filled by fine drawings by well-known Flemish masters. One, a "Seated Christ," by Petrie Christus, is among the Morgan drawings, for a long time on exhibition at the Museum. There are others by Jerome Boseh, painter of grotesque; by Breugel, genre painter, and by Jordaens, contemporary of Rubens and Van Dyck...