SUNDAY. NOVEMBER 30. 1958
HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON
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Americanized Version Of Passion Play To Be Given Here
The original authentic American
version of the famed Oberammer
Rau Passion Play, as performed
at Oberammergau, Bavaria, Ger
many for 32 years will be pre
sented in Klamath Kalis for the
first lime next month. Through Hie
combined efforts of Consolidated
Contorts Corporation of New York
and its president, Charles K. Green,
and Victor Spouse of New York, a
veteran of 2." years experience in
presenting the famed Passion Play
drama to millions of people, Amer
icans and Canadians will this year
foe, Hie most famous of all Bibli
cal "dramas. Dates for the play
in the Pelican Theater will be De
cen)b!r 12, 13, 14 under auspices
of the Klamath Falls Kiwanis Club.
First performed in 1634, it has
always been different from the Pas
sion Plays and Miracle Plays given
in Mher. ptrts of the world, evi
denced by the fact that when pro
hibited elsewhere, it was permitted
in (Jherammcrgau. Permanent per
mission to produce the play was
bestowed on the village in 1800.
The oldest known script of the
play, is one written in lfiti2. H is
No Free Love
For UBC Kids
VANCOUVER, B.C. (AP)
Thet;niversity of British Colum
bia .student paper had to print
theiarsh truth Friday; there's
no free love, at least not on the
UBCcampus.
To fuss first started when the
Ubyssey printed a letter from a
Sw'eWsh art student inquiring if
(hera were any free love socie
ties on the I'BC campus.
IiT subsequent editions the
Ubyssey printed letters claiming
the -existence of three free love
societies and a letter notifying
students of the time and place
for "organization of another such
socfMy.
Toe organizational meeting of
La tiociete de l'Amour Libre drew
40 Students, including four girls.
Toen Ubyssey admitted Fndav
the -whole thing was a "mammoln
hoaj;" perpetrated by the art stu
denis. Of the 40 students who had
showed up to organize La Societe
de l'Amour Libre, Ubyssey said:
"Even Ubyssey couldn't un
earth them, but it wishes them
lucrj anyway."
.
Court Records
" KLAMATH COUNTY
DISTRICT COURT
K&nnrth Leo Cowitz, assmilt nnd rob
hPT being armed with a dangerous
...nvA niiitii wttlv preliminary
hearing: held to grand jury: bond set
t $7,500; remanded to cutody of
horjff.
Ernest Cornelius Vande Wetcrlng.
passing crest of a hitl, dismissed upon
motion of district attorney.
Roy William Hawkins, violation basic
rule; $12 50.
Van Meter White, fail stop at atop
iign; dismissed upon mouon ui uia
trlct attorney.
Leroy Jerome Bruhn, overlength
LrjuU Spencer Houston, combination
overload. $109 forfeited.
Roy Wayne Thielten, combination
overload, $4 forreitea.
Harold Shidler, trespassing, $23 for
Jyry Glenn King, violation basic
Bobby Clauda Barnes, fail drive sin
gle Jane. $7.50.
Dale Winfred Watson, violation ba
te JUle, $12,50.
In Jefferson Brassfield, no PUC per
Llpyd' Emery McFarland, violation
Basif ruie.
eenie, dismissed upon motion of dis
trict attorney.
Carl Louis Lenz. driving suspended
prripd, $100 and five days county Jail;
da'1 ln lleu ' ftne: cmm'ttet
KLAMATH FALLS
Alfred Clinton Pantar, disorderly
eonfluct, lorieuea.
Andrew L. Jones, minor ln posses
itotf alcoholic liquors. $25 forfeited.
Jrtry Wavne Braieale, minor in po
tessfnn alcoholic liquors, $25 forfeited.
Bflbhy Ray Jones, minor in posses-nion-
alcoholic liquors, pending.
Charles Gaymon Jr., violation pro
bation, 12i days.
Kdgene Montgomery, drunk, $25 or
IZ1! days.
SiWn Riddle, drunk, $25 or U'i
German Nelson Thompson, drunk
$25 ror 12i days.
nL:ui- D.rfmnli rnnnlnu trnf
fic 'light, no operator's license, $10
forreitea.
Lon Gale Pearson, disorderly con
durf. $100 forfeited.
Mbdcsto W. Jlmlner, disorderly con
Ofvllle E. Wright, drunk, $23 or 12ft
v LAVen D. Kairer. driving on airport
runway Wlinoui na or ""'
N&rbert Joseph DeLorme, vagrancy.
flOO or 3U aays, luspniaeu.
ni. 1 .nln- Ihrotv nttv
larceny; one. minor in possession ai-
ContjliC liquors; iwu, u'i-
Ppwer Blackout
Stalls Elevator
OREGON CITY (AP) Four
persons were trapped 51 minutes
M-Uan thn Mnntrinnl RllilHtn? ple-
valnr was halted between floors
during a power blackout Friday.
Tje power went off in the cen
tral" section of the city when a
fust blew at a Portland General
Elestric Co. substation.
During the blackout police
talked with the trapped passen
gers' and called their homes to
explain the delay. Then when the
roer resumed the elevator de
livered the passengers to their
floor.
All estimated 500 calls flooded
the.police switchboard during the
outage.
stated by students that this text
is composed of two still older; one
ised in Augsburg m the 15th cen
tury, the other the work of Sebas
tian Wild written in the llith cen
tury. The present text used in Ober-
immergau was written in the vears
1810-1815 by Petter Ottmar Weiss.
The final revision was made by
the good angel of the village, the
beloved Father Alois Daisenberger.
The first performance was given
at Oberatiimergau in IbM and re
peated approximately everv 111
years since. The noted drama is
performed in three parts including
18 acts and 24 tableaux. The run
ning time of the performance is
from 8 a.m. to B p.m. with a
two-hour intermission at noon. Pre
sentation is given from May 15
to September 30 a period of
about 16 weeks.
For the first American tour of
the New World version the pro
ducers have adapted the script for
the first time into English. They
have also eliminated all of the
tableaux and added additional
scenes with a running lime of 2'
hours, which is customary in the
American theater, ln Europe, manv
illustrious spectators have
witnessed the great production in
cluding five kings of Bavaria,
Queen Isabella of Spain. German
Emperor Friedrich Wilhclm, King
Edward the 3th, Richard Wagner,
Adelina Patti and many of the
lemons singers and actors of the
world. The great cosmopolitan and
lences moved the eminent Christus
portrayer of a generation ago, Mr.
Anton Lang, to express hope that
"the Passion Play will constitute
a basis for a more friendlv inter
course between nations, and result
a better international under
standing."
From the summer pilgrimage in
the high Bavarian Alps In the New
World is a long jump. But just
as in Oberammergau the play will
beckon, ancf Americans and Cana
dians who are seeing the original
authentic version as performed in
Obcrammorgau for 224 years, and
now presented in Klamath Falls,
will respond. They will come to
see the age-old drama for the
first time presented in English on
the modern American stage. They
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Js-s-.oj&SsaewKiSM ' . .
VAL BALFOUR AS THE CHRISTUS
will come wiih varying motives
deep reverence, as to a shrine,
cureless curiosity, as to a show.
In these varied altitudes of mind
will come young and old. school
boy and prolessor. layman and
priest, minister and rabbi. All will
lie drawn by the magnet ism of
the story of the cross, for now.
for the first time in America and
Canada, the story is brought to our
own doorstep Our people will wit
ness not a spectacle, but an in
lUicnce one destined to last
through all the days that are to
come.
The ancient drama is the fulfill
ment of a religious vow. The story
is told in an old chronicle which
is preserved in the village arch
ives. According to this chronicle,
a terrible pestilence visited Ger
many in the year one of the
results of the 30 Year War. Whole
villages were wiped out, but Ober
ammergau maintained a strict
quarantine and for a time escaped
disaster. Unfortunately, a poor fel
low named Casper Schusler the
name being carefully preserved in
the chronicle who was working in
a neighlwring town, desired to
spend the week with his family. In
33 days nearly a hundred of the
villagers had perished, ln their de
spair, the people betook themselves
to their one recourse God. Their
extremity was great, but their faith
greater, and God was able to
save! So the villagers pledged
themselves to a certain course
lor all time to periodically render
their Passion Play, in return for
their deliverance. The compact
was made and, skeptical criticism
to the contrary notwithstanding, the
records state that from that hour,
the plague was stayed. The follow
ing year the play was given in (ul
lillmrnt of the vow and Irom that
lime until the present, 324 years
later, in spite of many obstacles,
the vow has been kept.
Ko- the first lour in the New
World, as it will be presented in
K'amath Kalis, with the dialogue
translated from German to Eng
lish, the committee has chosen Val
Balfour to interpret the part of
Jesus of Nazareth. Supporting
parts will be portrayed by a huge
distinguished cast. The producer.
Victor Spouse, with a quarter of
a century of Passion Play expe
rience to his credit, has hailed
Mr. Balfour's interpretation of the
Christus as die most sincere and
outstanding portrayal of modem
times. "In my opinion." slated
Spouse "Mr. Balfour's sincere,
humble portrayal of .lesus is com
parable to the great Anion Lang.
Christus portrayer of a generation
ago."
Mr. Balfour is the fourth genera
tion in his family to make Bib
lical drama his life work. In prep
aration (or the role he now takes,
he has given interpretation to
many of the male roles in the Pas
sion Play. While preparing for the
part of Jesus of Nazareth, he
played the role of the disciple Si
mon Peter, who was known as
"the rock" by the Saviour. Lay
men, churchmen and educators
are unanimous in their opinion that
Mr. Balfour achieves commanding
power in the greatest and most dif
ficult role an actor can undertake.
For A Very Special Christmas-;;"
PHOTOGRflPHIC EPPlir Wl
THE MEN will do the cooking for a spaghetti dinner to climax a "Dickens' Christmas"
Bazaar planned by St. John's Episcopal Church for December 6. The bazaar, featuring
sales of candies, toys, novelties and other Christmas effects', will open at 10 a.m. at the
church, Eighth and Jefferson streets, and Ihe men's spaghetti feed wjll follow at 6 p.m.
The Rev. Robert L. Greene anticipates sampling the culinary art of John Schubert, cen
ter, and John Moehl.
Higher Education Board
Seeks To Restore Budget
PORTLAND (AP) The slate
Board of Higher Education sifted
item by item through a $7,674,305
cut in its budget Friday in pre
paration for an appeal Wednes
day to Gov. Robert D. Holmes to
restore the money.
The board, showing no signs of
optimism that the money cut from
the 1959-61 biennium budget by
the Department of Finance
would be restored by Holmes,
classified the cuts in two groups.
The first was labeled cuts be
lieved not under the Finance De
partment's definition of added or
expanded services and the second
was for cuts in key services that
merit special attention.
The seven members at the
meeting of the nine - member
board also issued a priority list
for items to be considered if un-J
anticipated funds become avail
able.
The cuts were made by the de
partment on orders from Holmes
to keep the budget within the
limits of expected revenue, ac
cording to the board. This would
rule out new or expanded ser
vices. -
Henry Cabell, board finance
committee chairman who presid
ed at the meeting, said the cuts
"would, if not destroy us. do seri
ous damage to higher education.'
An aide to Gov.-elcct Mark Hat
field, Travis Cross, said Hatfield
would not comment until he has
more Information on the budget.
At the close of the all-day ses
sion board members said it will
urge some $1,028,000 be restored
to the budget by the Finance
Department on the basis that the
increases do not constitute added
or expanded services.
This includes $330,000 for land
purchases and building rehabili
tation; $278,800 for added faculty
social security costs: $224,314 for
needed supplies and services to
maintain the present service lev
el.
The major item on the priority
list is $1,887,000 for increased
academic salaries.
Other priority ilems include
$16,588 for increased resident
physician and intern salaries at
the Medical School; $35,821 for
library bo oks; $!I2.28I) for in
creased administrative and ser
vice department staffs; and $10!l,
670 for teaching equipment.
Major cuts reduced agricultural
research from an increase of
$1,062,000 to $799,000; federal co
operative extension from an in
crease of $692,000 to $404,000
teaching hospital and clinics of
the University of Oregon Medical
School from an increase of $801,
000 to $304,000.
Dr. D.W.E. Baird, Medical
School dean, and Dr. Charles Hol
m.m, hospital and clinics director,
were quoted as saying the cuts if
carried through would force a
limit on the number, of patients,
the closure of some hospital beds
and curtail clinic admissions,
Retired Pastor
To Fill Pulpit
The Rev. Frank L. Raney, Pet-
aluma. California, retired recently
as pastor of the Pctaluma Pres
byterian Church, arrived Friday to
serve as interim pastor of Peace
Memorial Presbyterian Church un
til such time as a permanent pas
tor is elected by the congregation.
He will fill the pulpit Sunday at
the 11 a.m. service.
The Rev. Miner E. Bruncr, pas
tor of Peace Memorial since Sep
tember, resigned and left Friday
to return to a pastorate in First i
from where the family came.
In addition to his pastorate, he
will serve as director of the West
minster Foundation program on the
campus of Ulah State College.
. He was accompanied by Mrs.
Bruner, his son and daughter.
Jockey Ted Atkinson has won
the Pimlico Special three times
Capot, One Hitter and Tom Fool
all for Greentrce Stable.
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