Word: oberammergau
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...Oberammergau, nestling among mountains and presenting every decade a Passion Play to commemorate its deliverance from pestilence.* But many a Roman Catholic parish offers some kind of play or pageant. Jesuits and Franciscans have given performances in San Francisco. Chicago has an annual and Milwaukee a biennial sacred play. A nine-act drama, The Passion, is given at St. Xavier College in Cincinnati. Last week as Lent opened, pious spectacles began to appear...
...Utica, N. Y. With his brother Mitchell H., he first showed moving pictures with Thomas Alva Edison's kinetoscope (1894) in a Buffalo dime museum. In 1903 he showed a first film of fire horses answering an alarm. In 1905, in Lynn, Mass., a colored film of the Oberammergau Passion Play was sensational. In 1914 the Brothers Mark opened the first million-dollar Broadway cinema palace, the Mark Strand. Impresario of the epochmaking 18-piece orchestra was Samuel Lionel ("Roxy") Rothafel. In 1926 Moe Mark sold some of his chain of cinema theatres to Stanley Co. of America which...
...Atlanta, performed by the choir of Big Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church. First wide public to hear about Heaven Bound was the theatrical world. Theatre Guild Magazine for August called it "the first great American folk drama" and said: "It should and probably will make Georgia an American Oberammergau." Recalling the power of The Green Pastures, a Negro religion play written by a white man (TIME, March 10, 1930), observers hastened to inspect a genuine all-Negro product of the same kind, produced for religious instead of commercial purposes. Last week in Atlanta was given the 31st performance of Heaven...
...Reaching Oberammergau just at the season's end, they witnessed the last awesome performance?last for ten years. "Mr. and Mrs. Henry Ford," reported the Associated Press, "did not conceal their deep emotion." But the Machine beckoned. Leaving the world's thriftiest? village behind, Mohammed went directly to Cologne. There, surrounded by German businessmen to whom his words are as the Koran, Mr. Ford peeled off his coat, vigorously laid the cornerstone of his first manufacturing factory on the European continent.? The historic moment was exactly high noon. Tapping thrice upon the stone, Henry Ford said...
Cologne papers' praise of Mr. & Mrs. Ford redoubled on discovery that they had done a "good deed" before leaving Oberammergau. Calling upon disappointed Anton Lang, replaced this year by another actor in the role of Christus, they told him to go and see the Ford representative in Munich. Whichever type of car Anton Lang picks out will become his free...