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...over, cynics may rise to call his ovations "hysteria," his re ceptions "sensationalism run riot." But back of the torn paper and the screeching headlines lay a very sincere and very spontaneous out burst of popular emotion. There has been so much commercialism in everything of late - crimes of passion are accompanied by insurance policies and lithe-limbed athletes hold grandstand conferences. Here was one man who did some thing for motives other than there being "money in it," for it is hard ly sentimentalism to feel that Colonel Lindbergh did not cross the Atlantic with his mind focused...
When term classes ended last week for students of Holy Cross, Jesuit college at Worcester, Mass., a gentle-faced German student hastened to the train that would start him toward Germany. He was Anton Lang II, second son of the able Christus of the Passion Players of Oberammergau (see p. 19). At Holy Cross, Anton II had proved himself able (high marks) and entertaining (violinist with the musical clubs...
After months of raging, there was satisfaction last week at Oberammergau, home of the famed Passion Players. Anton Lang, able Christus, had written a letter denouncing his nephew Otto Lang for apostasy from Catholicism to Methodism. America, U. S. Catholic weekly, printed the letter: ". . . Never before was it known that any child of Oberammergau did such a thing in America as to leave the Catholic Church. For his passing over into the Methodist Church neither his relatives nor Oberammergau can be held responsible. Acting as a good Catholic, my son [Anton], who at present is studying at Holy Cross College...
...Also there is a gradual corporalization of the individual: he begins to think of nothing but his bodily state, his temperature, his meals, his senses. Up here love is not the sweet, soft amusement and convention that it is down in the flat lands. It is a fierce elemental passion which absorbs once whole being, which is too awful to be spoken of either jokingly or even as a matter of serious conversation. He experiences this immediately in his desire for Clavadia Chanchat, an exotic, purely, animalistic woman at the "better Russian Table...
...wiry, serious-looking man of 32-Charles Duncan Chamberlin-a product of one of Iowa's many Main Streets, in the town of Denison. Early in life he developed a passion for tinkering with automobile engines. He studied electrical engineering at Iowa State University. He worked in a jewelry store. He married a pretty girl named Wilda Bogert. He went into aviation through the path traveled by so many young pilots-training in the Army during Wartime, barnstorming, stunt flying. Then he got a backer and a superbly designed Wright-Bellanca monoplane. He shattered the endurance record by remaining...