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Decades ago Cecil B. DeMille went to Oberammergau, saw the Passion Play, and left with a vision of all the great celluloid saint-and-sinner-ramas that he hoped to produce. Last week, to attend the century's seventh production of the 300-year-old Bavarian pageant, pilgrims 'crowded into Bavaria in Peugeots, Rolls-Royces, light aircraft, bikes and buses. As the play went on and on and on, lids closed over once reverent eyes: what everyone had come to see-from seats of softest oak-was nothing less than DeMille squared, a seven-hour pseudo-Biblical presentation...
Guided Tours. Conducted tours run as low as $587 for an eight-day, seven-country trip. There are special tours for bachelors (lots of nightclubs), theater buffs (1960 is the year for the Oberammergau Passion Play), stamp collectors (London's International Exhibition in July), golfers (following the tournaments and playing the best courses in the British Isles). For James Joyce fans, it is even possible to be conducted on a lurch through Dublin in the steps of Stephen Dedalus and Leopold Bloom, taking two hours or two days, depending on how many "balls of malt" (Irish whisky) are downed...
...familiar with the script of the Oberammergau Passion play. Perhaps it does contain, or has contained, expressions of special blame and bitterness toward the Jews [March 21J. If this is the case, they are the product of a too general Christian failure to comprehend the meaning of Calvary...
...years after the war. I hoped that the Nazis would bring order into the political and moral chaos that was Germany. Besides, one of the reasons I did the Passion play in 1934 under Hitler was because if I refused, the Nazis themselves would use Oberammergau for their own version of the Passion play...
Though Director Lang heatedly dismisses all allegations of anti-Semitism in his play, significant changes have been made in the text. The abbot of a Benedictine monastery near Oberammergau scrutinized the text for offensive lines long before Davis' article appeared, rewrote ten passages. For example, in the old version, a group of Jews denounced Jesus before Pilate: "He will be the goal of our eternal hate. We will hate him until the end of time." Now they say: "O Lord, here is a man on trial; bless us and tell us whether he is right." In addition, the words...