Word: fassnacht
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Rickenbacker Field, as all airmen know, is at Sioux City, Iowa. Ace Wolff happened by that city as manager of the Freiburg Players, touring the U. S. with their Passion Play (TIME, May 13). Ace Wolff and the Fassnacht family of Freiburg, Germany, who dominate the cast of the Passion Play, are old acquaintances...
...painting was lavishly restored in living shapes. On Calvary the greensward was cool, terribly oblivious of the burdened crosses. Solemnities of tone from orchestra, organ and choir sounded through the entire pageant. In the street outside a fire siren wailed. For more than a century and a half the Fassnacht family has dominated the Freiburg Passion Play, passing its privilege to its heirs. In Manhattan six Fassnachts appeared. Georg was a tragically mercurial Judas. Georg Jr. was Johannes. Amalie, Elsa and Augusta were respectively Mary, Mary Magdalene, the Blind Woman. Adolf, the eldest, gave to the Christus a grave presence...