Indianapolis Times, Volume 34, Number 190, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 December 1921 — Page 10

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GET READY FOR PASSION PLAY IN BAVARIA Famous Actors in Oberammergau Production to Be Seen Again Next Year. LANG IN CHRISTUS ROLE NEW YORK. Pec. 20.—After ai interval of eleven years the villagers of Oberammerguu. Bavaria, are preparing for the production of their famous “f’assion Play,” which should have been presented In 1920 but hath to be postponed until 1922. Anton Lang, who appeared as Christus In 1900 and 1910 and became world-fa-mous for his wonderful representations, has been chosen again to fill this part. His features bear a striking resemblance to traditional portraits of Jesus and his manners are of winning simplicity. Other important roles will be filled as follows: Peter. Andress Lang: Judas, Guido Mayr; Annas. Sebastian Lang; Herod. Gregor Breitsamter: Mary. Marta Veit: Mary Magdalena. Paula Rendl; John. Melchior Breitsamter. Jr.: Caiaphas, Hugo Kuts: l’ilate. Hans Mayr. The war wrought many changes in Oberammergau. 530 of the tnen under 45 having been drafted into the German army. Os these seventy-four were killed and many wounded. Some were taken prisoners by the French. Several of the players lost an arm or a leg and other persons bad to te substituted. Anton Lang, being slightly over military age. was not called to the ranks. HOW PLAYERS ARE SELECTED. The players for the principal roles are selected by a committee of nineteen appointed by the villagers and headed by the burgomaster and village priest, the vote being taken at the end of October in the year preceding the play. Subsequently the minor characters are chosen. Nearly 700 persons take part in the play. 322 of whom have speaking parts while 200 act but do not sneak. During the play season the respective performers put aside their respective trades and endeavor to live up to the parts assigned to them. In ordinary life Anton Lang Is a potter. Most of the other male j players are woodcarvers and farmers, j The staff of the play includes ati orchestra of 58 musicians, 41 singers. 23 scene shifters, CO ushers, 50 carpenters yid 24 fire watchmen. There are also committees on music, press, photographs, lodgings, tickets, etc. Costumes are made in the village and cost more than $5,000. The materials are obtained from Berlin. Munich and l’aris. Some rare stuffs are procured from Damascus and Jerusalem. The play delights the eye, the costumes of men and women in soft greens, browns and blues lieing In pleasing harmony. l’riests and Pharisees are like emperor moths in the glory of their raiment. The stage pictures are beautifully designed, the Lord's Supper, for example, being a reproduction of da Vinci's masterpiece. Until 1910 the play ban neen performed every ten years since 1631 in compliance with a vow made in that year, the only break having occurred during the Thirty Years War. The performers are natural artists, highly trained and excelling In stagecraft. Advancing age. with each decennial, renders a change In cast Imperative, but no one surrenders n leading role without tears. It is said that In 1870. ISSO and 1890. died of a broken Joseph Mayr, who represented Christus heart when he had to retire. So closely are the players Identified with their parts that Johann Zwink, who formerly appeared as Judas, attempted to hang himself on one occasion when carried away by the tension of the scene. The way to the cross is realistic to the last degree. The actor impersonating the Savior is suspended from the cross fur more than twenty minuter. In earlier times the play was performed outside the village church on n platform of rough boards. It is now presented in an auditorium with seating for 4,000. The theater is roofed over, except the stage, which is 140 feet long and 110 feet deep. On either side are the palaces of Pontius Pilate and the High Priest. The background is supplied by the frost -covered hills of Bavaria and the blue sky. surpassing\any effect that an enclosed theater could produce. Nobody is going to make money out of the Passion IMay. In 1910 the receipts amounted to $270,000, but this amount was entirely expended for the costs of production, wages, public improvements, religion, education and relief of the poor. About $94,000 was required for salaries of nearly 700 persons employed in the play. The largest amounts were paid to Anton Lang and another player, the manager, the conductor, lender of the chorus and first tenor, who received nbottt S4OO apiece. These payments were for the entire season, from the middle of May to the end' of September. As in previous years, Anion Lang and other players have declined to appear outside of Oberammeragu. Moving picture rights are also barred. At the close of 1910 a company offered to bring over the principal performers to appear in New York, at a salary of ss.o<)i) -acs with all expenses paid. Although this would have meant a life competency, in addition to a handsome amount paid to the community, the offer was immediately refused. The Tassion Play of 1922 will be presented at Oberammergau at intervals between May 11 and Sept. 24, and will comprise thirty-two performances. It is divided into two parts of seven acts each, with frequent tableaux and musical accompanliments, the thread of the narra live being maintained by a prologue and a band of soloists and choruses. Ths .nucleus of the acts is always an incident In the life of Christ. The performances begin at 8 a. m. and end at 0 p. m. with an intermission of two hours for lunch. Since the last performance, in 1910, a garage for 200 automobiles has been erected in Oberammergau, which can -be reached by the electric railway from ' Munich in less than two hours. A noteworthy feature of .he 1922 production, as far as American visitors are concerned will be the lower cost of accommodations in the village, owing to the high value of the dollar at currrent rates of exchange. Oberammergau today is filled with excitement over the preparations for the play, which is also a subject of much anxiety, the community having planned to spend three million marks on the production, and every member has staked his all. It is not believed that the prejudices and animosities caused by the war will tend to keep away former friends, while new pilgrims finding their way to the Bavarian village will receive a genuine welcome from people who hated war us much as the most ardent pacifist. BAITING A BACHELOR. GENEVA, Dec. 20. —A cruel joke has been played here on a wealthy bachelor earned Adler. Marriage advertisements were distributed to the leading newspapers throughout Switzerland extolling the virtues of Adler, referring to his large fortune and adding that he wanted a pretty wife, without a dowry. The unfortunate victim, after being Hooded with letters asking for a meeting place to be arranged, was forced to publish a notice in the newspapers stating that he was not the author of tly? advertisements and. further, that he never intends to marry. Adler, in the meantime. has made a hurried retreat to a small mountain resort in order to escape lrom his fair admirers.

FINGERPRINT SAVINGS DEPOSITORS .. ■ -, - .. : To protect the depositors in Uncle Sam's Postal Savings Banks an order has been issued by the Department that all depositors be fingerprinted as a means of identification in the event postal savings certificates me lost. Heretofore anyone possessing savings certificates found it easy to cash same. Now when the holder of a certificate presents it for payment the fingerprint is compared with the one on record, and if they agree the possessor of the certificate receives the money on deposit. The photo shows th e system placed tu effect in the New York Post Office. 1

SUN DUST MAY PREVENT RADIO Scientist Fears Inlerplanet System Won't Work. LONDON, Dec. 20.—Electrified dust thrown off by the sun forms tin atmospheric crust about the earth about 300 miles away which prevents wireless waves from escaping into infinite space, according to Prof. J. A. Fleming, Unlversity College, London, whose work in wireless research Is known all over the world. The screen made by the dust, he says, acts as a sort es wireless speaking tube and enables waves used for longdistanee work —whieh are about ten miles in length—to travel 6,000 and 12.000 miles. If It wore not for that screen, according to the professor's theory, the wireless energy thrown out by the big nending towers would not cling to the earth, but would pass away and be lost, tv hen coming in contact with the scr.vu he waves are deflected and guided between it and the earth's surface until “hey reach the receiving station for which hey were intended. The electrified dust is thrown off by the sun In immense quantities end the pressure of light—which exerts a total pressure of 70,000 tons on the whole surface of the earth—is strong enough to jvereome the backward gravitational pull of the sun and so drive the dust particles on the long Journey toward this globe. The dust attains great velocity in the freedom of the empty spaces and generates enough energy so that a single handful would drive the biggest ocean liner for twenty-four hours. Each particle bears an electric charge from the sun and on reaching the outposts of our atmosphere friction slows It down, and thus floating a layer or conducting screen Is formed which Is an unseen blessing to radio engineers. Professor Fleming, although he holds no positive dews on interplanetary communication by wireless, says that the moon is unfit for long-distance radio communication because it has no dust screen about its surface such as the earth has. —Copyright. 1921. by Public Ledger Company. Predicts British Empire Will Fall LONDON. Dec. 20.—“1 hope and believe that one hundred years hence there will be no British Empire. Either it will have played its part in the development of civilization and have changed into and given place to a much larger union of free states or It will have become n danger and a nuisance to mankind, and have followed German imperialism and Roman imperialism to the dust heap.” This is H G. Wells’ opinion of tho Britisn Empire a hundred years hence. It was read as a message from him at a dinner given by the Delphian Coterie, when the subject for consideration was •The Empire a Hundred Years Hence.'’ Chinese Festival to Moon Is Ages Old HONOLULU, T. IT., Dee. 20—One of the privileges enjoyed by residents of our mid-Pacific Territory is that of witnessing the ceremonials and customs of the always fascinating Orient. One of the most interesting of these ceremonials is the observance of t'je Chinese festival of the Full Moon, marked in the Chinese calendar as the fifteenth night of the eighth moon, which commenced this year on Sept. 15. This festival, originated by the Emperor Ming Hwang of the Tang dynasty in the eighth century, as now a major holiday of the Chinese people and Is observed by them, rich and poor alike, the world over. In Honolulu, where the September moon is perhaps a littlo brighter and more glorious than at any other place in the world the feast of the Full Moon Is observed principally by the exchange of gifts among the Chinese residents and by feasting on the night when the moon is at its full. On that night throughout Honolulu’s Chinatown tabies are set in the moonlight and are loaded with moon i-akes, grapefruit, taro, chestnuts, lichee nuts, sweetmeats ami other delicacies. There gather families and friends to par-

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take of the feast, but before the food is touched incense is burned and obeisance made to the moon goddess. After these ceremonies are completed the merrymaking commences, to continue in fl milder form for several days during which many gifts are exchanged and the roor are remembered generously by their wealthier brethren. While the younger generation of Chinese are inclined to slight the details of the full moon festival, the older Chinese still carry it through very much as it wns done by the ancient Emperor Ming Hwang. London Digs l T p Its ‘Heavies’ for Winter LONDON, Dec. 20.—Londoners are now diving into their trunks and bottom drawers disinterring their last winter’s woolen underwear. Winter is upon them. It was not the biting east wind that sent them shivering to their homes, but the news that a flock of wild geese and swans had put in an appearance off the outer Hebrides on the west coast of Scotland. f They came from Iceland, and it is a tradition in that part of Scotland that the appearance of these birds at this time of the yenr is an infallible sign that the coining winter is to be a hard one. SUICIDE WITH STRING. LONDON, Dec. 20. —Charles Collins, a Hackney book dealer, strangled himself to death with a thin string. He was Respondent because his daughter had Married and left him alone.

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FARM AGENTS DOING GIGANTIC WORK IN U. S. ! First Object Is ‘Humanization' of Rural Life, to Make It Attractive. RESEARCH NEVER STOPS BY ARCHER WALL DOUGLAS. WASHINGTON, Dec. 20.—1 t was Socrates who said the man who best engaged in running it. Maybe that is why the man on the outside knows so much more about any business than he !on the inside, especially as relates to farming. Every one seeks to tell the farmer how to manage a farm, but the only one who tries this in person and gets away is the county agricultural agent. Maybe this is because lie speaks ns one having authority. He has a man's job. Asa calling it is only about ten years old and came about as the consequence of the general realization that agriculture, the 'most important business in the world, had until lately a tendency to follow the ways of tradition and inheritance rather than those of experimentation and research. COUNTY AGENTS THINLY STREAD. The establishment of the county agent was a distinct effort to inject the trained, experienced human clement into the

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place on which to live, especially for that younger generation to whom the call of the city is so alluring.—Copyright, 1921, by Public Ledger Company.