Word: passion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...represent the Christ, Peter, Judas, together with 40 of their fellow-villagers, have arrived in the U. S. They will exhibit themselves and their woodcarving, pottery and painting. They will not give the Passion Play or any part of it. Cities to be visited by them will include Boston, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Chicago, Cleveland, Cincinnati, St. Louis...
History. In the early 1600's the Thirty Years' War* ravaged Bavaria in which lies Ober-Ammergau. War was followed by the Black Plague, which was worse. To avert the plague, the Ober-Ammergau villagers, meeting in a churchyard, vowed to "enact the Passion-tragedy in honor of the bitter sufferings and death of our dear Lord" every tenth year forever. Fulfillment of the vow began with a play given in the churchyard...
...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 to do so. But like the remainder of the German poor, the actors of Oberammergau find themselves forced to rely...
...most people are of the 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...
...actual financial condition and the support her population deserves there cannot be a person, however much he may dislike Germany, her ways, and her people, who does not hope that the peasants from this broken country will find in New York enough "generous Americans" to assure themselves that the Passion Play will not become a thing of the past...