Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1890-12-04 | Page 2 | The Passion Play

THE PASSION PLAY Henry Abbey Says He Will Not Bring the Ober ammercau Players to America Special to THE HERALD Examiner Dispatch PARIS Dec 2 By cable to the New York < ljMr Henry Abbey who is justnow stopping in Paris was seen yesterday yes-terday and asked whether tho report was true that he had come over expressly to engage en-gage the Oberammergau Passion Play actors He said such was not tho case Being pressed be added he and Mr Grau had had such a project under consideration considera-tion but had given it up because they considered con-sidered local surroundings played attch a considerable part in tho great success of the players at Oberammergau that the same effect could scarcely produced anywhere any-where else and that the company would not bear transplanting Abbey said he had several new enterprises enter-prises on hand but his arrangements were not sufficiently advanced for publication