SACRED PLAY

Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21124, 27 March 1934, Page 3

SACRED PLAY

Tin-: IAT.NTs or moi.y \vi;i:i\ A hint pla;. .-houim; how the icmarkabic events ol Holy Week albeled ;|,|. |i, 1,1,' of a taimA \\ hu.-c mcmlar-. ucre intimate follow, is ot .1. Mi> Chri.-t wa.- prc-cnlml in St. l.Uuo's I\u ,-n Hall b.N na label's ol the eonam,aiion last c'cnine,. Many of tue pan'shioi.ei.s ot S;. l.u' ''s Lhmreh at- . tended. a;ul walched a faithful repie- : ,-i iitatmii of h iiipenin;.- whicn must ■have been lommoii to a yreat many ol the laiiulus vim wire prolet.ed follower- ol CI in -t during the last lev. ; day.- of His earthly life. i The four s 'cues of the play, which was calhd "In the lL,u-e of ibe Oiher \larv," I, pre.'eiiteu l'alm Suiuiay, lluull Lriday. Luster Lv, . and tlv iliorimm, ol F.as'.er bay. The characterAcre CUophas. Mary Urn. w ale >. James tlie Ap.osth . and .bee.-, tin ir so;:..; ! Amos and Hannah i l'l.ari.-ee wii. is-: l of ihe laniilv., Leah, the wife of tiu |>« nil< ut tlvel, and Marv Ma«dal» i.e. All the H'.'iii". took place in the house ol Mary, wife of Cleophas. The play was produced la. l rvtnin-j, udh a hue appreciation ol the sacredn< .-.-- of the subject. Its rlimiitv was .;■ -:-ti d bv th.e .-implicit." of the Ma:;.--dlinus and the small number in the ca.i In the ileal seen,, the familv, nee m:; that Christ had risen after tlm Crucilixion. turns to loavi- the hou*lo fellow Hini. but the WoisliipiH l s fall di their l;pee> when they see their "das|. r staudina in the doorway. The mmm.: of h.', nins by a choir, at the '•"•■ d of each scene, ml, n.ilies tile effect •f ,I„. play. 1 ur performance will bo '!• Avenside. on (haod Fridnv.