Word: passion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Anton Lang, who will visit this country with 100 other actors of the Oberammergau Passion Play, earned 27,000 marks after rehearsing eleven months. Shoes cost 50,000 marks a pair, with other living costs in proportion. The players are forced to their American tour by their financial straits. They have again refused a $1,000,000 movie contract...
...players of Oberammergau will break a tradition of centuries. One hundred of the principal members of the cast of the Passion Play have signed a contract to appear in America. They are rehearsing now, and with their salaries they keep their village from starvation. The Passion Play last summer was an utter failure financially...
...after three months of negotiation, in which the whole village took part, it was decided to give no portion of the Passion Play in America. The act which the hundred players will perform will be a version of life in the Bavarian village, with especial reference to their woodcarving craft. Thus the tradition of 1644, a unique relic of medieval piety, is partially saved from the taint of commercialism
Jacinto Benavente, author of The Passion Flower: " On arriving in New York, I told reporters that American literature is almost unknown in Spain-except for Mark Twain, Jack London, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Upton Sinclair, and Longfellow...
...Wingfield as Sir William did his best with an apoplectic part. In the earlier scenes, before his son's iniquities were brought to light he was excellent. In the last scene the strength of his passion so completely overmastered him that he lost in dignity what he gained in force. Mr. Tearle as Bill was a thoroughly objectionable character unpleasant to meet anywhere, whether drawing room or Drury Lane. Miss Willard's Freda was restrained and well done. In contrast to the overworked sense of tragedy under which Miss Belmore as Lady Cheshire and her daughters Christine (Miss New-combe...