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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...
PRINCE MARRIES HERE, ran the Page One headline in the New Orleans Item (circ. 97,226), The exclusive story, with a four-column picture, told of the marriage of a well-to-do New Orleans woman, 36-year-old Virginia Kirk, and 26-year-old Prince Otto Wilhelm Hohenzollern, described as "youngest son of the late Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany" and heir to his abdicated throne...
...Christ, twice played in the '30s by Hotel Proprietor Alois Lang. In 1947, Lang was let off lightly by a de-Nazifi cation court after he had protested that the Nazis had bullied him into joining the party. Last week, the part of Christ went to 37-year-old Anton Preisinger. The change had nothing to do with Lang's Nazi past (ex-Nazi Preisinger was also fined by the same court), but because Lang doubted whether, at 58, he could stand the physical ordeal of the role. Each performance lasts eight hours, during which the Christus, after...
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...
Williams' campaigns often lose him subscriptions (he gets many letters threatening "to come down there and hang you"), but he gets so many new ones that the Farmer is already outgrowing the modern plant which Williams built for $100,000 in Montgomery last year. The Farmer carries little national advertising, yet made $55,000 last year. Since he has become a businessman himself, Williams takes a more kindly, if still somewhat scornful, attitude toward business than he did in the New Deal days. "Making money," says he, "is the easiest thing I ever tried...