Word: lange
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Oberammergau, Herr Anton Lang, able Christus of the famed Passion Players, received word that Anton Lang Jr., his second son, now studying at the University of Munich, has accepted an invitation of Holy Cross College, Worcester, Mass., to matriculate there next September...
...Oberammergau the local Mayor, the Judas Iscariot of the Passion Players, commented upon the reception accorded two years ago to famed Anton Lang, interpreter of the role of Christ, by President Coolidge (TIME, March 24, 1924, PRESIDENCY...
...Mayor asserted: "Our beloved Anton Lang often complains bitterly to me of the manner in which he was received by the President of the U.S. . . . The President would not hear him out when he wished to tell of our dire sufferings under the Treaty of Versailles. . . . Anton Lang does not like Americans. . . . It is not likely that we Passion Players will accept the invitations which have been offered us to come to America again this year...
...Actor Lang, it seems, still chafes...
...recess, Sally Jane, and I'll tell thee.") He has told how he went into business to make money and made illustrations instead; how he drank coffee in the Venice of the '80s with William Dean Howells, Henry James, F. Marion Crawford; what he knows about Andrew Lang, Edmund Gosse, Wells, Shaw, F. Hopkinson Smith ("whom I never could stand personally, or his writings either"). He has told why he was asked to write Whistler's biography; how he came to introduce to the world of art that very pale and precious exquisite, Aubrey Vincent Beardsley...