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...competition with Union City, N. J., Bloomington, Ill., Hollywood, Calif, and a half-dozen other U. S. towns and cities which hold some sort of Passion Play, Zion, Ill. last week set itself up for the third year as the "American Oberammergau." In Zion's rambling Shiloh Tabernacle on Palm Sunday opened the Zion Passion Play, bigger and longer than ever before. It will be performed every Sunday through June and this year for the first time the show will cost...
Forty-five miles north of Chicago on Lake Michigan, Zion, Ill. was founded in 1901 as a theocratic community, along with the Christian Catholic Apostolic Church, by famed, robust Dr. John Alexander Dowie. Two years ago Zion's General Overseer Wilbur Glenn Voliva, who believes the world is flat and lives...
Brazil nuts and buttermilk, inquired what the Church's annual Easter pageant was to be. Usually it was a work called Lord of Life but, as the current Zion souvenir program relates, "When God's clock struck the hour for the presentation of Zion Passion Play, He had ready a young man." That young man was Elder Jabez Taylor, now 29, one of the Community's twelve ordained ministers. Having discovered he hated to preach, "Jay" Taylor had taken to directing church plays, and for Overseer Voliva he worked up a Passion Play which cost...
...Zion's usually profitable building industry, arrived in time for the opening Passion Play, now performed by 300 pious members of the Community. He was sure that this year the show would gross $15,000. Zion Passion Players pray to God before every rehearsal, every performance. Their prayers have not always prevented mishaps. Chief worry is whether the wires will hold fast in the smash climax of the Play's 27 scenes, the Ascension of Christ, whose role is played by a 24-year-old office-supplies salesman named Le Roy John Peacy. Once a wire broke...
First religious journal to plumb the implications of Dr. Buchman's plea was Zion's Herald, influential New England Methodist weekly which editorialized: "Just what would happen if Adolf Hitler, shorn of all his pagan power, were suddenly to become a St. Francis of Assisi? Would not such a conversion immediately mark the end of all bluster, swashbuckling, regimentation, coercion, intolerance, and persecution? Dictatorship would instantly fade away at the touch of Christ, whose whole method was teaching and persuasion...