Word: oberammergau
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...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...
...looks like an understudy for Anton Lang, chief actor of the Oberammergau Passion Players; he hates the country "except as medicine"; loves crowds; is to be seen nearly every afternoon striding spiritedly up Fifth Avenue, Manhattan...
...serious accidents occur on the railroads of the Atlantic seaboard, the states east of the Appalachians will be deluged with a profession of Harvard talent far superior to and more diverse than anything that visiting Europeans can offer. It is indeed fortunate for the immediate prospects of the Oberammergau players that they are to be in Boston, for at present that city seems to be about the only place which will not have at least one visitation from itinerant Cantabridgians...
...Oberammergau Passion Players visited the White House and were received by the President. An address made on their behalf by the Chairman of the American reception committee carried a political appeal for assistance to Germany. Mr. Coolidge, angered, abbreviated the interview by ordering other visitors admitted. Later the President sent a letter to Anton Lang (the Christus), explaining that, much though he had enjoyed meeting the Passion Players, it is not permissable for a President to receive public addresses from people of other nations...
Percy Hammond: "Perhaps the most actual vision of a great dramatic idea outside of Oberammergau ... as effective in its minutiae as in its splendours...