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Born. To Dr. Anton Lang, Georgetown University German professor and son of the late, saintly Oberammergau Passion Play Christus, who died last year, and Klara Mayr Lang, onetime Oberammergau Magdalene; a son, their third child; in Washington, D. C. Name: Anton Lang...
Died. Anton Lang, 63, Bavarian potter who three times (1900, 1910, 1922) played the role of the Christus in the Oberammergau Passion Play; after an operation for a stomach ailment; in Munich. Softspoken, spade-whiskered Anton Lang first appeared in the Passion Play in 1878, read the prologue in 1930 and 1934, was succeeded in his chief part by Alois Lang, a woodcarver...
...beginning of last week Wilbur Glenn Voliva, General Overseer of the Christian Catholic Apostolic Church in Zion, Ill., felt comparatively agreeable. The Passion Play with which he hoped to make Zion the U. S. Oberammergau (TIME, March 29) was doing well. In an approaching municipal election Mr. Voliva believed his adherents would be victorious, thus restoring him to complete power over Zion. Then, one morning, Overseer Voliva directed his chauffeur to drive him past Shiloh Tabernacle, the rambling frame structure built by Zion's Founder John Alexander Dowie, in which the Passion Play was being performed every Sunday...
...competition with Union City, N. J., Bloomington, Ill., Hollywood, Calif, and a half-dozen other U. S. towns and cities which hold some sort of Passion Play, Zion, Ill. last week set itself up for the third year as the "American Oberammergau." In Zion's rambling Shiloh Tabernacle on Palm Sunday opened the Zion Passion Play, bigger and longer than ever before. It will be performed every Sunday through June and this year for the first time the show will cost...
...argument in a hockey game in which a French player bit a Hungarian in the arm. More remarkable than the games themselves was the behavior of the guests, whose antics, touched by the sparkle of a gala sports event, kept transatlantic cables buzzing through the week. ¶In nearby Oberammergau, famed Anton Lang, Christus of the Passion Play, grew excited over radio accounts, went over to Garmisch to see what they were all about. An expert winter sportsman, he watched the fancy skaters, wagged his grey beard with approval when Germany's Karl Schafer got the gold medal...