Show HOW PASSION PLAY Y IMPRESSES AN ACTOR There is the charm of keen appreciation in Otis Skinners Skinner's impressions of jf the Passion pIa play in Oberammergau Though h there have been glowing lowine ac accounts accounts ac- ac counts published of this remarkable reli religious drama none non a havo have given iven so 60 vivid a description of its effect Then too Mr rr fr Skinner Is the tho first of the notable American actors to comm comment nt on tho the thrill that tha the play gave cave him and he indicates that there is a lesson lesbon for American stage folk in tho the simple peasant players After a month in Italy and the Tyrol Ty rol wrote Mr Skinner It I r 1 have just landed with m my family a at Oberammergau gau the mt mecca of the universe universe- it it seems that to me I ran into Billy Crane at yesterdays yesterday's performance lie Ho had come over oer from Munich for the tho day The iThe Passion is play an emotion and a bi big ono one You cant can't shake hake it off ocr No Xo ono one can quite quito remain indifferent Even Eon Crane who couldn't fi figure uro out our any part for himself was held Strong men mn who never sat eat forty forty- five minutes in a theatre without going oine out for a 3 drink remain silent and smokeless and for eight hours and md then como come out looking lookin wise wise and chastened I I It c It is bi big and there is a lot of genuine ine Inc dramatic art about it There is an immersion into character and an absence absence ab sence of cocksure self consciousness in in these Bavarian players that I T should like to see seo more of on our professional stage stace Even the tho elements figure mm im im- as as it is done dono in in the day light Yesterday during the betrayal scenes scenes' s' s it poured and the actors ap ap- patently oblivious were drenched At Atthe Atthe the tho scene of tho the crucifixion peals of thunder came down from the tho mountains moun moun- while a n moment before the ascension asS as cension the sun blazed through the falling drops The Tho reverence ro of it all was 18 immensely heightened When the atrophied actor gets ets thrilled like this well this well he remarks it Ie Incidentally the king of Saxon Saxony who is stopping at our hotel quito hotel quite raw saw the ver performance of yes eyes CS to tenIa relay as did Dr Hill the time American to Germany On his return in the early farly part of September Mr Ir Skinner will be begin in a four our months' months tour in his successful play of ot the tho past season cc Your Your Humble Ser Ser- ant vant Just t after alter Christmas Mr Skinner Skin Skin- ner ncr will head a new company and come cometo cometo cometo to New York in in tho the pIa play pla- called cc Sire Sire written b bv by Henri Lavedan and first fint acted at ot the Comedic Francaise l It IV was in Mr Ir Lavedan's Lavedan s 's earlier pia play cc The Duel that Mr Ir Skinner appeared four years ago aeo and played continuously for two years |