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...made it more than ever apparent that whole masses of people were being led about by the nose. Men fought without knowing why they were fighting; storms of passion arose out of misapprehension. Therefore the resolve was taken in the heat of the battle, that the masses should be leavened by education, and the men should be taught to live peacably side by side through seeing one another clearly. In the United States the first material development of this idea was the formation of the Committee of One Hundred under the leadership of Mr. Elihu Root. Its purpose, announced early...
...sophisticated tourist who saw the Passion Play at Oberammergau last summer may have heard the devil whispering in his ear. "It's queer but is it art?" Yet whether he shuddered at the obtrusive realism or twitched in his seat through the long choral renditions, he could not but be impressed by the character of the players. Nobody could quesion their zeal, their industry, and their lack of business ability, which is an earmark of the artist...
While the value of the mark was dropping almost to that mythical region in mathematics, infinity, the Passion Players continued to charge their old prices for seats and finished the season with a dividend which would just about buy each of them three pounds of butter or half a pair of shoes. The players have their crafts; they make enough pottery and carve enough wood to keep body and soul together under ordinary circumstances. But during the long and arduous season of training through which they must go to produce the play, the baying of the wolf grows louder...
...marble halls, it will display its wares in a miniature setting of Oberammergau. A model of German village life, its daily tasks, and its festivals will be something of a revelation to the stay-at-homes and to the annual Paris-in-a-day Americans as well. If the Passion Players are able to line their purses, they will at least render us some quittance and they will bear their treasure home to an unselfish cause...
...Sublimation of Our Ruling Passion If you would see the most typical product of American dramatic art as well as the American spirit, go see the circus. There you will find the supreme expression of America's delight in size and speed, in superlatives and hyperbole. Barnum and Bailey's "Greatest Show on Earth" makes no claim to subtlety, to artistic discrimination, to any of the refinements of effete European culture; it simply exults with three rings and a side show in being bigger, faster, more dangerous and more defiant of natural law than any entertainment ever before...