Salt Lake Telegram | 1929-08-11 | Page 19 | Hollywood 'Goes Religious' at Presentation of Pilgrimage Play

I Ho Hollywood Goes Rel Religious Religious' at V 1 Presentation of Pilgrimage Play V HOLLYWOOD Cal Gal Aug 10 10 olana NEA ha has turned t re rem Once every summer Bummer for the last ten tell years ear gold crazed Hollywood has forgotten n II Its bank accounts and Its gin parties to sponsor enthusiastically the greatest of ot Am Americas America's 8 religious religious' plays The Tho Pilgrimage Play This Is tho the tenth summer that has turned fr m Its own world of or fantasy to the re realism of this presentation ru of Christs Christ's life It n Is only ohly R. R a 80 short rt distance Cr froth from t 1 the Ue entrance of f the open air theatre where stars stars' an and m multitudes tt tudes a alike aUke nce sit Sat on hard wooden ben benches b beneath the in moon and nd tars stars to fo w watch the unfolding unfolding- Ing- Ing of or Biblical episodes to th the million dollar m motion uon picture studios where here art rt Is hi translated ed In the lIe terms of sex appeal and thrills Somehow or or other the th r earnestness of t the i In S r r iJ this theatre mikes s t the 1 movie tt seem m false and unreal to i c i N Nothing h g that t that i the tie the film l grind o out can compare T j Pilgrimage Pi Play as as 4 In Its ei th theatre tv Cecil B B. B D King of ct KI gi a L film depicting the thC life or ot Ch C shouts of ot f unrealism and rind box bok box Ideas by c comparison m. m The pilgrimage PI Play y differs dIffer from I tho the original Passion Play pre pres presented t dby by tle the the- peasants O of Ober ber Bavaria Ba or one every ten years yeara in that it jt t. t events e In Christs Christ's ill i'll life irom l to death whereas the p del deals la with only the l last st w eker His BIs life lire 4