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...precariously gyrate heavenward in damaged harness. Passion Play performances have presented Director Taylor with a number of other headaches, such as the time Pilate (Secretary Ralph R. Pihl of Zion Industries, Inc.) fell asleep onstage; the occasion on which someone forgot to roll the rock from Christ's tomb in the Resurrection scene; the equally painful moment when the seven-foot cloth used to lower Christ from the Cross was missing when it was time for the Descent. Last week's premiere, however, went off well enough, struck an audience of 1,600 as no less professional than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Illinois Oberammergau | 3/29/1937 | See Source »

Down below looms the mighty Golden Gate of the Cathedral of Freiberg, covered with intricate sculptures. Peter Vischer's Tomb of St. Sebald, with its majestic figures of the Twelve Apostles-- and his own aproned self down in one corner-- towers to the ceiling. After contemplating these Paul Kleinschmidt's twentieth-century "Tittering Woman," is irritating, although friends assure me that it too is art. But Albrecht Durer's "Geometry and Perspective", Nuremberg 1525, soon restores my good humour, and, at peace with myself and the world, I look out the window at the great bronze lion guarding the court...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 3/24/1937 | See Source »

...hold--unpleasant, because Frankie's claws were sharp as steel and busy every second. The professor meanwhile doused a cotton wad in ether on which to deposit the beast, and on top of both was placed a large bell jar, like the dome of Grant's tomb. This not without blood-curdling howls, and scratches, and a beady look of the eye as sour as the Ancient Mariner's as the beast passed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 3/22/1937 | See Source »

...DANGEROUS SEA - George Slocombe - Macmillan ($2.50). Readable, thoroughgoing history of the Mediterranean Sea and shores, which able Foreign Correspondent Slocombe calls "the cradle of civilizations-and their tomb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiction: Recent Books: Mar. 1, 1937 | 3/1/1937 | See Source »

...that the President intends to sacrifice his fine ideas for reform of the lower courts on the altar of his last for power over a courageous high tribunal which has hitherto proved recalcitrant to his demand for dictatorial sway. And an interesting commentary on the whole performance is the tomb-like silence from the Harvard Law School, where a group of influential and honorable men, instead of running to the defence of tradition, are indulging in a little sit-down-and-wait strike of their own. For Caesar is ambitious, and the honorable men find it profitable to play...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COURT QUADRILLE | 2/10/1937 | See Source »

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