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...Ante de los Reges Magos" in its original state is but a fragment. It gives the ritualistic material through the meeting of the Wisemen and Herod with free and strikingly intellectual treatment. More than any other prote type it resembles the Orleans Epiphany play, a late ritualistic drama, written, of course, in Latin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DRAMATIC CLUB TO GIVE ANNUAL MIRACLE PLAY | 12/2/1926 | See Source »

...rather hear some pinchbeck fellow gurgle a roulade than listen to the best constructed sermon. When, therefore, the guildsmen of prosperous towns began to give simple dramas, inspired by the magnificent theatricality of Mass, and evolved from Bible story, prelates everywhere came gradually to value their spiritual uses. Soon Herod was thumping his spear on the boards, and Judas went about his betraying in a long red beard, and Pilate could earn as much as ten shillings a week if he told his lines with a swaggering tongue. . . . In the Fifteenth century, roles were cast with a nice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Everyman | 8/23/1926 | See Source »

...Methodist Church is out-heroding Herod in its demand for the religious control of our people. They have organized their Methodist Board of Temperance, Prohibition and Public Morals, have a building of their own in Washington and, with the zeal of Torquemada, are striving for the ecclesiastical mastery of private conduct, not through the Gospel but through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Committee Hearings | 4/26/1926 | See Source »

...southern end of the Dead Sea, the region of the story of Lot's wife; specimens of fine, bright-colored stone, such as Solomon may have used in building the Temple; models giving reproductions of the Tabennacle, of the Temple of Solemon, and of the Temple of Herod; tiles from the Tenth Roman Legion stationed at Jerusalem in the first century; hand mills, such as were used by the women of old and are used by the women of old and are used by the women of today in Palestine; agricultural implements, as the one-handled plow, which...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Semitic Museum Is Rich in Biblical Matter | 1/29/1926 | See Source »

...High Priest G.K. Bishop '27 Saint Augustine G.G. Ackerson '27 Mary Helen Lewis First Angel Rhodita Edwards Elizabeth Grace Michelman Joseph C.C. Wooley '29 First King Murray Pease '26 Second King D.W. Moreland '28 Third King F.K. Smith '29 First Messenger Charles Hicks '27 Second Messenger W.D. McKerrow '28 Herod D.L. Dickson '27 First Shepherd Charles Iseatherbee '29 Second Shepherd James Pales '28 Third Shepherd L.J. Schrelber '27 Devil D.F. Robinson '26 Second Angel Mary Caperton Third Angel Constance Templeton Fourth Angle Helen Goodrich Choristers M.M. Stevenson '28 A. D. Reter R.E. Smith '28 O.L. West...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STARCK GIVES REVIEW OF OLD MIRACLE PLAY | 12/17/1925 | See Source »

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