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Show "Passion Play" Life of Small Bavarian Village character of each artor Is considered as well as his histrionic ability. The principal parts are hereditary. The whole village lives for this production. The Inhabitants spend their time at fashioning crucifixes, rosaries and Images Im-ages of the saints to sell to the tour ists who flow through their quiet little city year by year. The Passion play, a dramatization of tbe sufferings In the life of Christ, takes place In tbe little village of Oberammergau. nestling in the Bavarian Bava-rian Alps. And this ploy has been going go-ing on every ten years since tbe plague of 1033. Durlrg that year tbe citizens of Oberammergau vowed that they would enact the piece every ten years aa a thanksgiving offering for having been delivered of tbe plague. The original text and arrangements were probably made by the monks of EttaL The music was composed by Rochus Dedler, schoolmaster of the parish In 1814. Tbe production is given giv-en In the open air and stands are constructed con-structed to accommodate 6,000 spectators. spec-tators. Seven hundred actors are employed em-ployed tn the play, all native villagers Tbe proceeds go for the public good after the expenses bave been defrayed and a small remuneration made to each actor. Tbe play Is a stupendous manifestation manifesta-tion of religious worship and tbe moral |
