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...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, such as the time Pilate (Secretary Ralph R. Pihl of Zion Industries, Inc.) fell asleep onstage; the occasion on which someone forgot to roll the rock from Christ's tomb in the Resurrection...
...nave. They beheld, behind glass, an illuminated statuet of Jesus Christ, praying in a Garden of Gethsemane in which every leaf and blade of grass was meticulously modeled and painted. Every four and one-half minutes the lights slowly dimmed and the haloed plaster head of Jesus raised slowly heavenward. This was "the first animated diorama ever made of a religious subject," lent to Trinity by its makers, Diorama Corp. of America...
...against Italy, Russia against Japan, one by one the interned travelers break out their national colors. For some unindicated reason, the hoofer and the Russian girl remain critically aloof from the passions of nationalism. However, in an emotional outburst which turns her protector toward more sympathetic arms. Irene looks Heavenward, declares: "Poor, dear God! Playing Idiot's Delight. The game that never means anything and never ends...
...nimble maneuvering while slipping the noose around Italy's neck. For me it has crystallized into convictions many things which up to now have been only impressions - namely that: 1 ) Mr. Eden is an overly young and ambitious careerist. 2 ) That England, whilst casting pious eyes Heavenward, seeks to have the League pull her own imaginary chestnuts out of the fire. 3) That to duck a "possible" conflict of English-Italian interests in the Red Sea area 30 years from now, she is right now, today, willing to take all the steps of the aggressor which will inevitably plunge...
...model built by his friend David Dunleavy, 18. David's plane circled prettily, made a three-point landing. Charles's zoomed up, continued to climb, climb, climb. For an hour and a half Charles chased it across town until, a tiny speck in the sky, it vanished heavenward...