Word: playing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Your request for an accurate description of the Merkle play just received upon my return from Boston, and I hesitate to write or even refer to this play, as every time it is brought forward it hurts a real fellow and a smart one, Fred Merkle.- However, there have been so many different accounts of this play maybe the public is entitled to some truth in the matter, for after all they pay the freight...
...Water jets must play constantly in a textile mill to keep the fibres moist and pliable...
...type resorted to here are no longer convulsive for their own sake. Nor does pleasant hokum like the sale of candy with a souvenir in each & every box, redeem the longer intervals of sluggish comedy. Henry Hull makes the actor-mayor only a conventional juvenile. The Passion Play, traditional drama of Christ's last days, has been given for more than six centuries on the hills of Freiburg, Germany.* Last week the Freiburg players appeared in Manhattan, presented by Morris Gest, directed by David Belasco. The locale was the gigantic Hippodrome, onetime scene of elephantine musical shows in which...
...Calvary the greensward was cool, terribly oblivious of the burdened crosses. Solemnities of tone from orchestra, organ and choir sounded through the entire pageant. In the street outside a fire siren wailed. For more than a century and a half the Fassnacht family has dominated the Freiburg Passion Play, passing its privilege to its heirs. In Manhattan six Fassnachts appeared. Georg was a tragically mercurial Judas. Georg Jr. was Johannes. Amalie, Elsa and Augusta were respectively Mary, Mary Magdalene, the Blind Woman. Adolf, the eldest, gave to the Christus a grave presence, a tenor voice of such reedy purity...
...More famed, not so ancient, is the Passion Play presented at ten-year intervals by the inhabitants of Oberammergau, Germany. This version began...