Word: oberammergauers
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Married. Anton Lang Jr., faculty member at Georgetown University, son of the onetime "Christus" of the Oberammergau Passion Play; and Clara Mayr, this year's Oberammergau "Magdalene," in Oberammergau. Mrs. Lang's role will be filled by Fraülein Ritta Kosch...
Engaged. Anton Lang Jr., faculty member of Georgetown University, son of the onetime Christus of the Oberammergau Passion Plays; and Clara Mayr, this year's Oberammergau "Magdalene." Married. Helena Woolworth McCann, 21, granddaughter of the late 5?-&-10? Store Founder Frank Winfield Woolworth; and Winston Frederick Churchill Guest, 27, poloist; in Oyster Bay, Long Island...
...half dozen people ended and the audience -So deaf-mutes-broke into spirited applause. The pastor of Cameron Methodist Episcopal Church of the Deaf, Rev. August H. Staubitz, arose. With lightning fingers he signaled his flock that they were about to behold a lecture on the Passion Play of Oberammergau, for which each of them had paid 10?. The lights went out save for one beam from a shaded lamp near the screen. The lecturer began flashing magic lantern slides, explaining them in a booming voice. An interpreter, his hands flickering continuously in the beam of light, translated...
Nearest thing to a U. S. Oberammergau is a grimy, ugly town across the Hudson River from Manhattan called Union City. This New Jersey municipality has two sacred dramas, both 20 years old and both celebrated...
...Passion Play, called "America's Oberammergau," opened last week at Union City's Holy Family Church. It was translated and is still directed by 79-year-old Rev. Joseph N. Grieff. Last week Father Grieff was officially hailed as "Union City's Most Useful Citizen" in honor of the 75th anniversary of his parish's founding, the 50th of his pastorate. The Passion Play, in six scenes and ten tableaux, departs from tradition in letting Christus talk. Attracting smaller audiences than its rival 20 blocks away, it presents a good Judas, a Caiphas who has played...