Word: oberammergau
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Craftsmen from Oberammergau visited Manhattan and in a short time sold $65,000 of their wares. The craftsmen were Passion Players because in the year 1167 the great emperor Barbarossa founded the play and the people of Oberammergau solemnly vowed to dramatize the "Passion" of Christ once every decade-a promise which was broken only by the Great War. Between plays, these men ply their trades of potters, carvers, painters...
While young Hugo Stinnes tours this country in plutocratic style searching in every nook and cranny for good investments for his opulent father, there is all the more pathos in the current trip of Oberammergau's peasants to America. These simple folk have always been so absolutely apart from the outside world and its cares that even the most cosmopolitan person cannot but feel that the Passion Play and its actors belong only to Oberammergau, and that if the world wants to see Anton Lang and his fellow-actors it must go to the little German village...
...opinion that such a course is preferable to entering the movies--and of course one enterprising cinema promoter has already made such an offer. It is a mistake to believe the motion picture cannot be associated with anything artistic or sacred, but the Passion Play of Oberammergau in the movies? Well...
...sophisticated tourist who saw the Passion Play at Oberammergau last summer may have heard the devil whispering in his ear. "It's queer but is it art?" Yet whether he shuddered at the obtrusive realism or twitched in his seat through the long choral renditions, he could not but be impressed by the character of the players. Nobody could quesion their zeal, their industry, and their lack of business ability, which is an earmark of the artist...
...take. It will refresh the jaded appetite of the land of mechanical efficiency with an exhibition of its own handiworks in wood and clay. And in order that these may not seem out of place in our marble halls, it will display its wares in a miniature setting of Oberammergau. A model of German village life, its daily tasks, and its festivals will be something of a revelation to the stay-at-homes and to the annual Paris-in-a-day Americans as well. If the Passion Players are able to line their purses, they will at least render...