Word: passion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bayreuth in 1876. Since then, the Wagnerian operas have been presented as he wished, but the scores are not burned nor is the theatre torn down. Neither unfortunately do others go and do likewise. But the music is preserved and sung annually with the fervor which characterizes the Passion Play of Oberammergau. Last year there was no festival at Bayreuth, because the theatre was undergoing necessary post-War repairs. This year, however, from July 19 to Aug. 20, it is being resumed under the stage direction of Siegfried Wagner .(son of the composer), the orchestral leadership of Karl Elmendorf, Karl...
...history and spirit of early painting in Italy. Robert H. Benson is head of a potent, English banking house which bears his name. With the assistance of his wife, who is related to the late Sir George Lindsay Holford, another owner of famed Italian masterpieces, he indulged his passion for art collecting over a period of approximately 40 years (he is now 77). Why should Mr. Benson now allow his matchless treasures to pass from his possession? A hint is thrown out by the fact that high income taxes and inheritance taxes in Great Britain have influenced many a wealthy...
...unusually refreshing bit of froth, only to flatten it with her usual pomposity. The heroine, a little Miss Main Street, is infatuated with the-idea of marrying a duke. Only after she has been taught the error of her snobbish ways and given an opportunity to register truly philosophic passion under half-closed eyelids, does she discover that her fiancé, Mr. Smith, is in reality the Duke of Westborough. Thereupon, morality and the sugar plum go down together...
...over, cynics may rise to call his ovations "hysteria," his re ceptions "sensationalism run riot." But back of the torn paper and the screeching headlines lay a very sincere and very spontaneous out burst of popular emotion. There has been so much commercialism in everything of late - crimes of passion are accompanied by insurance policies and lithe-limbed athletes hold grandstand conferences. Here was one man who did some thing for motives other than there being "money in it," for it is hard ly sentimentalism to feel that Colonel Lindbergh did not cross the Atlantic with his mind focused...
After months of raging, there was satisfaction last week at Oberammergau, home of the famed Passion Players. Anton Lang, able Christus, had written a letter denouncing his nephew Otto Lang for apostasy from Catholicism to Methodism. America, U. S. Catholic weekly, printed the letter: ". . . Never before was it known that any child of Oberammergau did such a thing in America as to leave the Catholic Church. For his passing over into the Methodist Church neither his relatives nor Oberammergau can be held responsible. Acting as a good Catholic, my son [Anton], who at present is studying at Holy Cross College...