. Drama in religious service . urn of the Spies from the PromisedLand; and Samson Avenging Himself on thePhilistines. Many of these scenes are closelyinterblent with the action of the play. There are about six hundred performers in thePassion Play, one hundred and twenty-five ofwhom have speaking parts. Another hundred areactively engaged in the details of the many as three and four hundred persons ap-pear in some of the tableaux. The action re-quires about eight hours and takes place withoutintermissions, beginning early in the morning. Mass is daily celebrated by the players be
. Drama in religious service . urn of the Spies from the PromisedLand; and Samson Avenging Himself on thePhilistines. Many of these scenes are closelyinterblent with the action of the play. There are about six hundred performers in thePassion Play, one hundred and twenty-five ofwhom have speaking parts. Another hundred areactively engaged in the details of the many as three and four hundred persons ap-pear in some of the tableaux. The action re-quires about eight hours and takes place withoutintermissions, beginning early in the morning. Mass is daily celebrated by the players beforethey go to take their parts. Special religioustraining accompanies the formal preparation forthe Play season. And the single-mindednesswith which the villagers offer their Passion Playin keeping with the ancient religious vow and tothe Glory of God is nowhere more manifest thanin their repeated rejection of almost fabulousprices to play elsewhere, on a commercial Thirty Pieces of Silver in the coin of every [176]. From the drawing by Winold Reiss JOHANN ZWINK AS JUDAS SURVIVAL AND REVIVAL realm of civilized world have been stead-fastly refused with smiling rebuke. Commercialtheaters, failing to obtain even the right to re-produce the play, or scenes from it, or its music;and motion picture magnates finding, at last,something that their money will not buy, turnaway discouraged; while the simple villagers goabout their peaceful artistic everyday lives ofwork and worship. What a revelation it is, a London publisherexclaims, of the mine of latent capacity,—musical, dramatic, intellectual,—in the humanrace, that a single mountain village can furnishunder capable guidance and with adequate in-spiration such a host competent to set forth sucha play from the tinkers, tailors, ploughmen,bakers and the like! It is not capacity that islacking to mankind. It is the guiding brain, thepatient love, the careful education, and thestimulation and inspiration of a great idea. J
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