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...before the first performance of the Oberammergau Passion Play (TIME, May 12) the place was a busy buzz of villagers making money from the 5,000 visitors, of visitors collecting souvenirs. Sunday dawned rainy, giving the natives new trade at the doors of the open-air theatre-hot-water bottles, blankets, umbrellas. All day through the long performance, wind and rain beat upon huddled spectators and struggling players. When the sun did burst out it made fine theatre, illuminating the soggy mob (700 peasants) clamoring for Pontius Pilate to order the Christ crucified. Comment at the village inns that night...
...beloved veteran will be succeeded by Alois Lang, a woodcarver, of whom he is a distant relative. There are some 200 Langs in Oberammergau. Alois is tall, robust, 38. In 1922 he lost the election to play Jesus by only a few votes, thereafter understudied Anton Lang. He is elegantly mannered, confident, magnetic. He keeps 40 hives of bees, likes to smoke and drink beer with the Apostles at the Hotel Alte Post. He carves innumerable wooden Christs, and exhibits no false modesty about his exalted position in the Passion Play. No one is happier in Oberammergau than his stout...
...Virgin. Anni Rutz, awkward, homely, sweet-tempered daughter of a widowed candy shop proprietress, will play the Virgin this year. Anni is a typist in a saw mill, the first blonde to play Mary in the living memory of Oberammergau. No trouble has she had in fulfilling the obligation of the chosen Virgin to lead a seemly life. For a while it seemed that her younger, much prettier and lazier sister might receive the vote, but the Oberammergau electors are discerning men, not to be influenced by appearances...
...second time. But Johann Zwink, who played the role several times, will continue to be missed whether Mayr is good or bad. For Zwink, a mellow, watery-eyed, lovable ancient, now exceedingly poor, is considered by many in the village to have been the best character actor that Oberammergau ever had. His was naturally a Judas face. Because his spirit was quite otherwise, he used to rehearse his part by walking about town, mumbling imprecations in his beard against the Christ until he almost believed them, became suicidally inclined. It has long been Johann Zwink's great desire that...
Roberta, 18, daughter of Soul Saver Aimee Semple McPherson, sailing with her mother from Palestine to Constantinople, fell from the upper to the lower deck of the boat, suffering severe injury. Her condition prevented Savior McPherson from accompanying her flock to Oberammergau, Germany...