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Last week the Black Hills Players were on their first extended tour (by automobile) of big U. S. cities, as far afield as New Orleans. Into the Minneapolis Municipal Auditorium they drew audiences of 4-5,000. Josef Meier, as usual, played the Christus. His wife, a former Chicago girl, Clare Hume, was a handsome Mary. Their two-year-old daughter Johanna, who had the sniffles at one performance, was the infant Jesus. No applause was permitted during the play, while Meier was realistically crucified with trick nails, while he was resurrected in white satin. Nor was there any applause...
With many of its principal actors fighting in France, the Oberammergau Passion Play (given once a decade) was canceled for the third time* since its inauguration in 1634. Not yet drafted was its Christus, long-haired, bearded Woodcarver Alois Lang, 49, too old for active service...
Born. To Dr. Anton Lang, Georgetown University German professor and son of the late, saintly Oberammergau Passion Play Christus, who died last year, and Klara Mayr Lang, onetime Oberammergau Magdalene; a son, their third child; in Washington, D. C. Name: Anton Lang...
...this news that the new Pope, Eugenic Pacelli, Secretary of State and Cardinal Camerlengo, had taken the name of his predecessor and mentor, the crowd set up a hum and buzz. Then, as excitement gave way to pious fervor, the throng, with apparent spontaneity, burst into a hymn, Christus Vincit...
...They had rules of long apprenticeship, traditions of craft, stiff standards for 'masters." Flemings were lucky, because this medieval system lasted at least a century longer among them than anywhere else, led to the great technical discovery of oil painting and its first masters-Jan van Eyck, Petrus Christus, Hans Memling, Roger van der Weyden...