Word: played
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Oberammergau's elders pledged perpetual production of the play at ten-year intervals if God would spare the village from a plague...
...little (pop. 5,200) Bavarian village of Oberammergau one day last week, the townspeople stood silent in the sundrenched street. Inside the town hall, 25 elders and the parish priest were solemnly deciding who should play the 16 major roles of the 300-year-old Passion Play, scheduled to begin its first season in 16 years next May 21. As each part was filled, the town crier-a young man with shoulder-length blond hair-wrote the names on a blackboard for the people...
Preisinger, who played Lazarus in 1934, is well known for his devotion to the church-a strong count in his favor, said the villagers. To play the Virgin Mary the committee chose blonde, 20-year-old Annemie Mayr, daughter of a building constructer, who is studying woodcarving-Oberammergau's principal occupation...
...Where can we gain? What must we stop?" While assistant coaches are drumming the answers into California's well-organized platoons, Chief Organizer Waldorf paces to & fro overseeing the whole production. "By Friday, the hay is in the barn," he says, "We can't play the game for them...
...game turned out more specialists, but was it really as much sport? Smaller schools, lagging in man and coaching-power, could hardly keep up the pace. As Pennsylvania's switch to the platoon system last week indicated, however, the new game looked tempting to the schools that could play it. It seemed to be around to stay...