PASSION PLAYER'S PLIGHT.
Anton Lang tho "Christus" in the Oberammergau Fassiou Tlay, has been forced to pay his entire earnings this summer to a Munich dentist, and even that amounted to but one-eighth of the bill. Lang received 25,000 paper marks for appearing ln the Passion Play for nine month. Then he went to Munich to have his teeth filled, whereupon he received a bill from the dentist for 200.000 marks. Lang nnd the other directors of the Oberammergau Home Arts Company, because of their inability to pay the salary of a choirmaster to begin training for the next play, have at last succumbed to American capital and have signed a contract to send ninety artisans, wood carvers, painters, wrought iron workers and others, to America in the autumn. The Passion Day Association, however, still declines to allow the play to be Aimed even tor cnurcn propaganda ps__-p<f2a__
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Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 95, 21 April 1923, Page 19
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