Typed and spelled as written - Lena Stone Criswell

THE DAILY DEMOCRAT
Thirty-First Year - Number 213
Marlin, Texas, Friday, January 8, 1932

PASSION PLAY, SUBJECT
OF ILLUSTRATED LEACTURE

Resident of Lott Now Teaching at
Navasota Makes Talk
Before Club

Illustrating her talk with slides, Miss Maggie Carol Barganier, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. Barganier of Lott, lectured this week before the Music Club at Navasota, where she is a teacher in the public schools, on The Passion Play, which she saw at Oberammergan while on a tour of Europe in 1930.

While there, Miss Barganier was a guest in the of Anton Lange, who played the part of Christ three successive decades, and who, in 1930, because of his advanced years, read the prologue.

The story was told how three centuries ago the people of that town promised the Lord, if He would deliver them from the pestilence, the black plague, which was raging in the country, that they would perform the Passion Play every 10 years.  No more deaths occured after this promise was made, it is said.

Miss Barganier stated that the highest honor that can be bestowed upon a man in that town is to play the part of Christ, and the highest honor that can be bestowed upon a woman is to play the part of Mary.  The play required 700 actors, who are chosen by committees made up of the priest, the burgemaster, the three oldest men of the town, the council and the other men who are chosen by popular vote.  The people are trained from earliest childhood to act.

The characters, the chorus and groups of children were shown and Miss Barganier told facts of interest about each.  Scenes of the most important events occuring in the life of Christ were shown.

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