The Sooner Student (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 6, No. 12, Ed. 1 Wednesday, July 7, 1926 Page: 3 of 4
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visit with her - parent in ' Tisiii-
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Emma -2oc Williamson' god Faye
Barnhill spent the weekend in Sulphur
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Ed Liwghncy Muskogee is a g'test
of friends at the Phi Kapin Psi house
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: Mary Bess Lawson spent Friday as
the guest of friends in Oklahoma City
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lunlap Delta Gumma fcoiise
Mary Dun!
spfnt the holidays in Cushing
- iicicn Martini o Wagoner is the
Idlest of (icr sister 'Zclla' Morton 569
University boulevard
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ting spent the weekend in
Stroud as th guest of Ed Grimm
- kVilhelm Stewai? and Milton Mc-
Donald of Muskogee who have been
guests of friends at the Phi Kappa Psi
house have returned home
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Prof Jcronie Dpwd Mrs Dowd and
' Jerome Jr have gone to Black Moun-
tain K C where they wilt spend' the
summer -
Misses Bunin and Lois
Gould I lave gone to Seattle Wash
where they will attend the convention
of Kappa Phi They will visit frirnds
in ' Colorado before returning home
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Mrs La Verne Hams and Mis Ini
Leslie Delta Gamma house spent the
holidays in Sliidier
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CALL 1055-W for your Marcella
Corner Maim and Bonleyard -
THOMAS MEIGHAN IN
UNIVERSITY PICTURE
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Man Who Found Himself” Based
On Play By Booth TarUngton
Han Today And Thursday
Thomas Meighan appears1: in the
screen version of Booth Tarkinglon's
story “The Man Who"' Found Him-
self’ which appears today and Thurso
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in a thirsty werlA
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in etue lote in Norman
OKLAHOMA COCA COLA
BOTTLING COMPANY
Oklahoma City
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day at the nnivenily theater
The story is of a man who went to
jail foe another man’ crime and of
how he came back to settle old scons
Meighan aa Tom Macaulcy is sent
to prison sud while there learns that
the man fur whose crime he is “serv-
ing time” is about to marry the girl
Macanley loves
Macanlfcy escapes but reaches1 the
girl's home too bite bet 'telle her the
truth end she realises that she has
married the man who made Tom a vic-
tim of trickery' Tom thrashes Morris
and returns to prison
After 'hiding released he and his
Sing Sing acquaintances “frame” Mor-
ris Who it develops really his fieen
tampering with bank funds Morris
is killed by a watchman and Tom
marries the girl wjio left Morris as
soon as she learned the truth
M0SRLEY TELLS
OF CHRIST PLAY
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cut off from the rest of the world and
up in the pure mountain climate felt
confident Ijiat they were- safe They
took the precaution of stationing
guards all about the surrounding
country in order’ to keep all persons
from the outside world from entering
the village ' ‘
“Bnt one young man managed tq
slip past- the guards iu order to visit
his sweetheart He brought the black
death Then the people of the village
knew that all earthly means had failed
and they gathered together at the vil-
lage church There they promised God
that if he would spare them forever
jiftcrward they would find some mean
of exemplifying the life of God's he1
loved son Christ -
Play Starts In 1634
“The village was spared Not a
death occurred-' The people fulfilled
their vow by enacting the first revgh
form of the Passion Play the next
year 1634 From this crude beginning
the modern Passion Play considered
the greatest 'human spectacle in the
world was evolved”
Moseley described Obcrrammergan
as sne of the most picturesque spots In
Europe as it has hardly changed in
VS no-dll HSSMH ATLANTA CA
TjfHElUl IT 1$ 7 MjLLjqN A DAT
THE SOONER STUDENT WEDNESDAY
apixarance since the year of t)
miraculous escape from Ihe black
death'
“The town has an air of reverence
and holiness’ he said “The houses
re bnilt of ttonr with stuccoed ex-
teriors Many of the wall are de-
corated with hand paintings depicting
scenes from the Passion Play
Theater Described
"The theater where the Passion Play
is enacted which is every ten yeats
seals 4000 persous The halt where
the audience sits is covered 1-ul the
stage where the play is put on is under
the open sky The actors never stop
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the play because of rain
"Anion Lang has played ' oart of
Christ for 30 years! ' He is a pettrr by
trade and keeps a curio shop when toe
play is not being enacted The play
contains about 500 actors of uh-m
100 are cliildrrn ' Since the pop 1 ition
of the whole village is ' only IJtrj
everybody in the town has suns con-
nection with the play '
Everyone Haa Some Part
“Those who do not have play ing
parts are scene shifters or scene de-
signers of costume makers or jwlicc-
neu who keep order and quiet about
the area near the play A urge force
JULY 7 1926
of firemen is also on duly during the
enactment of tlie play in order to ex-
tinguish quickly any fire that may
start
“The Passion Play contains ' It!
scenes from the New Testament and
25 tableaus Tlica tableaus each last
three minutes during which not an
actor' makes a motion These tableaus
are taken from the Old Testament
and give: a due to the iolliiwing scene
For example the betrayal of Joseph
by iiis brothers routes before the scene
of the betrayal of jesns by Judas
Occurs Diving Passion Week
“It is railed the Passion-Play-be
cause all of the episodes occur during
the Passion week - All of the principal
actors and actresses are elected' by -a
village vote The year before the play
is to be enacted nobody shavcsoir cuts
his hair No social-gatherings arc
held all of the' time of the village i
devoted to preparation ' 1
“No one is allowed to take photo-
graphs of the Passion Play itsclr
'til pictures of the scenes are obtained
during rehearsals in off-years' 11
“The scenes of the play are spoken
nut pantomime The spectators arc
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Dennis, Frank L. The Sooner Student (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 6, No. 12, Ed. 1 Wednesday, July 7, 1926, newspaper, July 7, 1926; Norman, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1780817/m1/3/?q=hoy: accessed July 18, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.