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Show PASSION PLAY ' AT VVADSWORTHS Krst Authentic Iicturization of Famous Religious Pei-formaiice He:e Friday and Saturday. "The Passion Play", presented annually at Freiburg and Ober-ammergau, Ober-ammergau, Germany, is to be presented as a motion picture at the Wadsworth theater Saturday and Sunday nights, the first being be-ing sponso-.ed by the stake It. I. A. For centuries pilgrims have made their way to the distant Alpine Al-pine foothills to absorb inspiration inspira-tion from the sacred drama and in recent years multitudes of tourists have been attracted: The play was given first at Freiburg in the year 1264, and has been given regularly since the year 1600. Generation after generation in Freiburg succeeds to the important impor-tant roles. The players may almost al-most be said to be bred for that purpose. As an example, Adolph and George Fassnacht, who enact en-act the Christus and Judas, respectively, res-pectively, boast a long line of forebears who have been similarly simi-larly honored. The motion picture camera has never been permitted within the amphitheater before. This film is the first, and undoubtedly un-doubtedly the last to be sanctioned, sanc-tioned, and will constitute a record rec-ord for future generation?, perpetuating per-petuating the sublimest of tragedies trag-edies as enacted at this stage of the world's progress. Glen Crusby, who saw the play while on a mission in Germany, says of it: "Nestled in the mountains of southern Germany, the people of ' Oberammergau have for the past three hundred years dramatized the life and mission of Christ. This, "The Passion Play", ha3 become more than a tradition or a profession, it is a part of the people who live in the village. "They dres, act and live as the people did in Christ's day, which accounts for their ability to portray His life and work in a most vivid and realistic manner. "One who has seen this play has a much clearer conception of the condition under which Our Master lived and the problems which He had to contend with." |
