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Preaching every Sunday, either from a pulpit or, if none offers, then from his own hearthrug, has always been a minor passion with Wilhelm II of Germany...
...before the first performance of the Oberammergau Passion Play (TIME, May 12) the place was a busy buzz of villagers making money from the 5,000 visitors, of visitors collecting souvenirs. Sunday dawned rainy, giving the natives new trade at the doors of the open-air theatre-hot-water bottles, blankets, umbrellas. All day through the long performance, wind and rain beat upon huddled spectators and struggling players. When the sun did burst out it made fine theatre, illuminating the soggy mob (700 peasants) clamoring for Pontius Pilate to order the Christ crucified. Comment at the village inns that night...
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...
...part by walking about town, mumbling imprecations in his beard against the Christ until he almost believed them, became suicidally inclined. It has long been Johann Zwink's great desire that his son might succeed him. But the son is given to carousals and balladry unbecoming a Passion Player...
...with honor as long as you can put one foot before the other." A believer in scientific exploration, Author Cherry-Garrard deprecates purely spectacular expeditions, thinks Amundsen's discovery of the South Pole was mostly that. Says he: "Exploration is the physical expression of the Intellectual Passion . . . you will have your reward, so long as all you want is a penguin's egg." Explorer Cherry-Garrard, educated at Winchester, Christ Church, Oxford, is a noted sportsman, won the Grand Challenge Cup at Henley...