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...program follows Harvard Hymn Three Pictures from "The Fower of Babel" Anton Gregor Rubinstein Fireflies Russian Folk Song M Father's Door Russian Folk Song Summer Evening Student Song of Finland Drake's Drum Samuel Colcridge Taylor
...Jesus. Anton Lang, a potter, played the part in 1900, 1910, 1922. Now 55, he was considered too old to play it again by the 21 electors chosen by all Oberammergau to determine the cast. Says he: "You do not know what a great physical strain it is to hang on the cross for a half-hour." Instead of risking heart failure in this fashion, Anton Lang will read the prologs to the 18 acts and 25 tableaux, a duty customarily undertaken by those who have played the Christ...
...beloved veteran will be succeeded by Alois Lang, a woodcarver, of whom he is a distant relative. There are some 200 Langs in Oberammergau. Alois is tall, robust, 38. In 1922 he lost the election to play Jesus by only a few votes, thereafter understudied Anton Lang. He is elegantly mannered, confident, magnetic. He keeps 40 hives of bees, likes to smoke and drink beer with the Apostles at the Hotel Alte Post. He carves innumerable wooden Christs, and exhibits no false modesty about his exalted position in the Passion Play. No one is happier in Oberammergau than his stout...
...Between Anton and Alois Lang is no great friendship, nor any notable rivalry. Long ago Anton signified his willingness to resign the role. There was the matter of his age, and resignation did not mean the loss of money. The Passion Players receive negligible salaries - one-fourth of the profits, another fourth for expenses, another for furnishing the pensions, an other for communal purposes. Said Catholic America last week: "A dentist's bill which Mr. Lang contracted after the Passion Play was eight times as large as the sum he received for . . . 68 performances." Possibly, however, Anton Lang resents...
...Director is Johann Georg Lang, 40, a teacher of woodcarving who is unrelated to either Alois or Anton Lang. A lively man of theories, he has eliminated much of the archaic flavor of the production; has, for example, substituted for the usual motley of costumes a color scheme of white, gold and grey...