PASSION PLAY
(To the Editor.)
Sir, —Permit me to call attention to an inaccuracy appearing in one of your columns this evening. In an interesting explanatory note "attached to a cabled message your readers are given to understand that early in 1924 a performance of the Oberammergau "Passion Play" was given "> Aew York. This is not so. It is true that about the time mentioned a few ot the leading male characters of the 1 assion Play" made a tour of some of the Eastern cities of the U.S.A., with the purpose of making better known the wood carving for which the people of Oberammergau are also, if not quite to the same extent, renowned. But so far these good folk have strenuously opposed all eltorts of outsiders to commercialise and exploit their treasured heritage—the "Passion Play."_l am, etc., . 2nd March. A-M-
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Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 53, 4 March 1927, Page 8
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142PASSION PLAY Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 53, 4 March 1927, Page 8
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