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...Munich, Dr. Heinrich Held, Bavarian Prime Minister, declared martial law in Germersheim...
Stirred by complaints from the district, the Bavarian Minister of Agriculture at Munich recently ordered all American vines near Germersheim destroyed. That roused the mob, As it grew uglier last week 150 State police dashed up in motorcars, formed a cordon around Germersheim Court House. Doubling in fury, the mob broke the cordon, stoned and stormed the neat brick structure...
...Alexander Woollcott to the New York Times: "The play triumphed even over the village of Oberammergau . . . uproar, bedlam, mean scramble . . . seats reserved and paid for at a distance may not always be had at the last moment without a dash of bribery. . . . Americans buying something to take home . . revelry . . . Bavarian orchestra playing 'Sonny...
...front cover*) In the Bavarian village of Oberammergau, the social register is the Holy Bible. Rising young men aspire to be Peter or John or Joseph, the more self-confident of them have even thought of being Jesus himself-in the hallowed Passion Play, which has been presented in Oberammergau since 1634. In 1633 the inhabitants promised God that thereafter, once every ten years, they would dramatize the last earthly days of Christ, if only Heaven would check the Black Plague whose dark miasma had penetrated even into the Bavarian Alps...
...Bavarian village of Bayreuth that night, while millions of her country-folk heard the grave music broadcast over the nation, a spare, withered old lady lay peacefully in death. Although no one kept watch over her as over the bodies of kings and statesmen, the old lady did not appear to be alone. On her coffin lay a faded photograph of 50 years ago. Next day when she was carried the 40 miles to Coburg the photograph went too; stayed close to her when she was carried into the city crematorium and a string quartet sounded the measured strains...