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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...
...representative of a popularized type of miracle play, containing the conventional nativity group, angels, devils, and shepherds. Gregorian chants are used to furnish an appropriate musical background for the action. The visual setting for the performance is the Germanic Museum reproduction of the "Golden Gate" of the cathedral of Freiburg, Germany...
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...
...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, a tenor voice of such...
Another distraction from Passover thoughts in Manhattan, last week, was the production by Morris Gest, a Jew, of the Freiburg Passion Play (see p. 18). Editorialized the irate American Hebrew: "MORRIS GEST PLAYS JUDAS AT THE HIPPODROME. . . . Despite protests by Jews and non-Jews . . . Morris Gest carried through his program . . . the story of the Crucifixion which has caused more Jewish agony, persecution and oppression. . . . Were we a devout Christian [and had we seen the Gest production] we could never again look upon a Jew with kindliness and respect; the commandment. 'Love thy neighbor,' would definitely exclude Jews. . . . When two Jews...