European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 25, 1950, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and Staves april Eram Cergau Steps up passion re a bearded Oberammergau ancient puts the finishing touches on hand carved wooden figures to be used in decorating the passion play Wood carving a his Huv developed Arf m the bavarian the Fawn itself has been made spick and Span for the event and every possible Effort has been made to provide adequate accommodations for Here is e scene from the last passion performed 1934 of celebrate its 300th since then War interfered with the regular performances each id by Omer Anderson Oberammergau hear Sals for the 1950 revival of Tite world famed Oberammergau passion play Are in full swing in lius Mountain Wahed bavarian Hamlet of by Day the villagers ply their Geoid casings most of them Are innkeepers and cow by night they gather in the villages Little theater to be trans As their fathers before to Fem have been for More than 300 into biblical characters to the worlds most famous Folk pageant geor Johann Lang be Gan with the Rales of Christ and the Virgin by inn keeper Preisinger and Nemie pretty daughter of a truding gradually the rehearsals Are being expanded 1o include Hie rates of Pontiac us the disciples and Mary am townspeople in the hundreds of Tibet will take part in the final Cycle of nazis banned Pfay 6foot 4inch weighing 280 1930 play and tie 1934 after the the nazis banned Lang he builds tie play the same Way Oberammergau ers build Timeir Stone Lay a few sturdy stones As a foundation and keep adding the smaller at Tow Oberammergau travel manager Kurt Bauer shuffling bundles of letters tickets and the re quests pour in by hundreds daily Bauer says attendance Ai five 33 beginning May 21 and closing exceed Bauer expects at least mainly from the Britain and All Western european he including Spain and have agreed to allot foreign Exchange for Oberammergau theater holds the american express and us and British travel have each reserved 500 hotel rooms in Oberammergau Fox All of the 33 the passion play built in 1900 with the proceeds from that years holds Oberammergau can accommodate approximately tourists and has arranged to Lodge the remainder in villages within 20mile performances be g i v e a sundays and Addi performances will be Schepov if attendance performances open at Are and closest of a two hour the eight hour performance begins with the years april sheaf announces Ger Man prisoners have been captured in the first 23 Days of this april 1946 i the first Serviceman Dep fld ent sent to it under govern ment auspices arrives in on her Way to april 1947 terrorists blow up British Bil lets in killing four British april 1948 the soviet Union ends Ita 13 month Boycott of the in trustee ship r april 1949 it is announced that the Fleet and marines Are quitting Shanghai As chinese near the get ready for roles in drama Reading of a prologue by Alois a prosperous woodcarver and hotel who player la the Christ role in v the colossal religious which has been presented by the villagers virtually every decade since deplete the biblical Story of christs from Bis entry into Jerusalem until the the play is celebrated for its Fidelity to biblical no stage makeup or wigs Are the cast is made up of approximately too men Between 19 and and 150 women Between 18 and True to the Bible must Mil As a Gau is for record number of when the last curtain is rung the 700 in preparation for have not had a shave or haircut since last bar have managed to a float financially by inducing a goodly number 6f the males to have what approximates a per manent the play is presented in rut filament of a vow taken by the villagers in when the Black plague swept through the Val new insecticide kills House pests faster than Dot new York a new insecticide which the depart ment of agriculture Calls Al Lethrine and which a said to be Strong enough to kill housefly in flight has been demonstrated the a department official quicker acting and has a lower toxic level on All War blooded animals than the no popular though Dot appears to be More persistent in general v in the a synthetic is compared favourably to imported pyrethrin which Are derived from plants grown imported from British East the belgian and experts said Quantity production economical Cost v Venice schedules violin Competition Venice International violin Competition will be held Here fro May 25 to june it will be open to musicians Between the Ages of is and 30 1 a prize of lire will go to the who also will be offered an engagement of Jour con of Bavaria Oberammergau ers blocked roads to the but m of 300 inhabitants died nevertheless of and several Hundred were the town meeting the took a solemn the Village were to Pujji sent each me Cade the Story the plague with but three the vat of lagers Ever since have honoured their in 310 the spec1 Tacle has been interrupted during the Napoleonic in the pos world War depression and during world War it the play musical score was written in 1810 and the script in in play since childhood played Lazarus role in like virtually All he has been playing m tha production since the other picked by a committee of Village elders and the Parish Hugo octogenarian Village St Peter Melchior strap Ping Sawmill Pontius Pilate Hans Wood and Gaynele crop a Novelty store Mary Oberammergau borrowed 000 Marks from the bavarian state government to build re pair paint City buildings and expand villagers have invested an Al most equal amount in private funds to tidy up hotels and Pri vate Homes where visitors win be i i thousands of new costumes Ait being sandals repaired and Rusty swords and helmets burnished to free Beram Nierhaus for the town used a big chunk of the loan to put up 85 apartment buildings for refugees from Eastern Ger Many who were in we Are a Christian mayor Raimund Lang we cant out the gees Pap let Bas arabs infiltrating Tel Autv new spa Heruth declared Arab u filter Al have stared planned Mitil throughout the state Israel Organ of the said incidents along rails Borders with neigh Arab states Are occurring ulary each newspaper called mincing action from Arab to Stop hostile three jewish soldiers and civilians were killed recent Negev sector by Arab ers who were believed entered Israel from the held Gaza coastal the stars and stripes vol j apr  managing editor 1 Sporta editor Taj exec Uve manager chief of distribution Maurice r Kir news bureaus rank Tun Darmstadt Berlin to Tom Vienna Bremerhaven Wui itch european edition published daily at Dat Anstadt to the occupation under the auspices armed forces information Ano Educa Uon division Frankfurt the anal  should be addressed to the stars and stripes Apo its Osar mail to the new York office should be sent my was Wiir v this is not official publication of armed reentered As matter sept a im7 at the at new York n under the act of much k79