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THE BULLETIN OF THE CATHOLIC LAYMEN’S ASSOCIATION OF GEORGIA
CHANGES IN CAST
OF PASSION PLAY
Oberammergau Preparing
for Sacred Drama--Tempt
ing Offer Rejected.
By Rev. Dr. William Baron von
Capitaine.
(Cologne Correspondent, N. C. W. C.
News Service.)
Cologne, Germany.—To Martha
Viet, the daughter of a carver, has
fallen the opportunity to take the
part of Mary' in the Passion Play
of Oberammergau, beginning next
May. This young woman was
chosen from a group of twelve can
didates for the honor—the highest
that can come to any maid of the
village.
Martha Veit is said to be a very
beautiful girl with black eyes and
black hair, and an expression of
gentle sorrow in her face to- make
her a very appropriate portrayer of
the Mater Dolorosa. Her selection
for this role fulfills a .sort of pro
phecy that was made years ago by
the physician of the district. “Some
day you will play Mary,” ne said to
the little maid.
Only twenty-four years old, Miss
Veit has had more experience than
the average young woman who takes
part in the Passion Play. She was
educated by the Benedictine Nuns
of Jutzing, and subsequently was a
governess in Stettin and Hamburg.
She served as a nurse also in a
hospital at Dresden, and during the
war was with the German Bed Cross.
As a native of the Village and old
enough to remember the last pre
vious presentation of the sacred
drama, Miss Veit adds to her natural
fitness for the difficult role she is
to assume many talents which she
has acquired through her relation
ship to some of the principal play
ers. Her mother belongs to the
Lang family, of which Anton Lang,
the famous Christus, is the chief
representative.
There have been other important
changes in the cast which produced
the play in 1910. Most of those
who took part in that year have
grown old or died. Anton Lang is
not to be replaced in the role of
Christus, though it was thought for
a time that he would be. By a mar
gin of only a few votes he has
been chosen to play thg part again
next year. The elder Zwink, who
was Judas in 1910, is still a capable
actor except for his voice, which is
no longer strong enough. Guido
Mayr succeeds him.
The part of Johannes played form
erly by Melchior Breitsainter, and
those of Caiplias, Herodes, Pilatus,
and Magdalena, which previously
were personated by Hugo llutz,
Gregory Breitsamtcr, Hans Mayer
and Paula Rendi, respectively, will
be assigned io others next year, but
there will be seen in the cast again
Andreas Lang as Petrus, Sebastian
Lang as Annas, and Anton Lcchncr
as the Prologus.
Great excitement was provoked in
Oberammergau by the offer of an
American cinema concern to pay be
tween 50,000,000 and 70,000,000
marks for the privilege of filming
the play. It was a great tempta
tion to the folk of the village, espe
cially since the war has left them
very poor and there is need of
money to restore the play hall and
repaint the scenery, but they
promptly refused the offer and will
depend on their own means to con
tinue the custom of the past, re
jecting modern mammonism and
materialism.
There is no regret because of this
decision. Proffers of generous
support have come from America, so
that there is no room longer for
pessimism or doubt. Merchants
from all parts of Germany are com
ing to the village to establish them
selves and there is an influx of
others. The scenes of the play
seems assured, even tliough the
present depreciation of German
money makes the cost of restoring
the play hall and the repainting of
the scenery seem like a huge sum.
Oberammergau, Bavaria.—Precau
tions arc being taken by the Bur-
'gomeister of Oberammergau and the
committee in charge of preparations
for Passion Play to prevent “profit
eering” upon the thousands of vis
itors who are expected to come here
next summer. Already inquiries
and applications for tickets have
been received from more than 100,-
000 persons who contemplate at
tending performances of the play.
These have come from all the coun
tries of Europe and from North and
South America.
The sacred drama will be pre
sented from the latter part of May
CATHOLIC WRITERS’
GUILD ENTEUTAI1
New York Newspaper Own
ers and Editors Patrons of
Play at Times Square,
tre.
New York.—The Catholic Writers’
Guild packed the Times Square
Theatre, generously loaned by Sel-
wyn and Co., on Sunday night when
it gave its first entertainment under
the patronage of most of the New
York newspaper owners and editors.
Included in the list were Adolph
Ochs, New' York Times; Ralph Pu
litzer, New York World; W. R.
Hearst, New York American and
Journal; Arthur Brisbane, editor of
the Evening Journal; Frank A. Mun-
sey, New York Herald; Edwin F.
Gay, Evening Post; John N. Harman,
Brooklyn Times-Union; Arthur M.
Howe, Brooklyn Eagle; Ogden Mills
Reid, New York Tribune, Victor Bid
der, New York Staats-Zeitung; Jus
tin McGrath, national Catholic
Welfare Council Washington; Frank
I. Cobb, New York World; Martin
II. Glynn, Times-Union of Albany,
N. Y.; Charles M. Lincoln, New York
Herald; Herbert Bayer Swope, exe
cutive editor of The World; William
F. Lewis, Morning Telegraph, New
York; Andrew McLean, Brooklyn
Citizen; C. M. Van Anda, New York
Times and many other publicists,
judges and clerics.
His Grace, Archbishop Patrick J.
Hayes, not only attended the enter
tainment, but made an address in
which he praised the Catholic^writers
and the aims of the guild and ex
pressed his delight that they had
come together in such an organiza
tion.
Father Francis P. Duffy, the fam
ous chaplain also had a word of
welcome for the new organization
and he said it with a vim and sin
cerity that won him applause from
a gathering which seems to delight,
in cheering everything Father Duffy
says.
Some of the best known enter
tainers on Broadway appeared on
the programme including Emmett
Corrigan, J. Keirn Brennan, Julia
Allen and Company, Donnell O’Brien
the tenor, Michael Anselmo, violinist
and the company in “The Dark
Powers,” who were Charles P. Bates,
Harry English, Redfisli Clarke,
Louis La Bey, Louis Hendricks,
Adin Wilson, Daniel E. Hanlon and
Marie Louise Benton.
Hundreds of Paintings
For Catholic University
Washington, D. C.—More than
seven hundred different paintings
of the Blessed Virgin Mary already
have been collected by the Salve
Regina office of the Catholic Uni
versity for the National Shrine of
the Immaculate Conception accord
ing to the Very Rev. Bernard A. Mc
Kenna, secretary of the National
Shrine.
One of the most recent gifts of
the collection is that of the Right
Rev. George A. Caruana, newly ap-
opintcd Bishop of Porto Rico, who
brought from his native land, the
island of Malta, the copy of a like
ness of the Blessed Mother which is
attributed by tradition there to St.
Luke.
The Mariana Library, which will
be another distinctive feature in con
nection with the shrine already num
bers more than two thousand vol
umes.
FATHER BURTON HEADS
ST. BENEDICT’S COLLEGE
Atchinson, Kan.—St. Benedict’s
College has a new director. Father
Damian Lavcry O.S. B., who had
occupied the office for about fifteen
years, recently asked to be relieved
of the position and his request has
been granted. He is succeeded by
Father Lambert Burton O. S. B., for
many years rector of the Scholasti-
.cate, a department for young men
studying with the intention of join
ing the Order. Father Sebastian,
O. S. B, former Chaplain, will now
have charge of this department.
until the middle of September. The
definite announcement of the re
sumption of the pjay after an inter
mission of twelve years prompted
many mercliants, hotel proprietors
and speculators to lay plans for ex
ploiting visitors. The Burgeomcis-
ter's committee is taking measures
to disappoint these exploiters.
Georgetown Regents
Plan To Group Schools
Washington, D. C.—Members
of the board of regents of
Georgetown University have ap
proved plans for the expansion
of the institution, including the
raising of an endowment fund for
the purpose of grouping all the
various schools in new build
ings, in Georgetown. Some of
the departmciit of the University
arc now housed in different sec
tions of Washington.
The Regents authorized Presi
dent John B. Crcedcn, S. J., to
proceed with the work of estab
lishing an endowment for the
medical and dental schools, and
the erection of new quarters for'
School of Foreign Service, the
construction of new dormitories
for this school and for students
of the department of law and the
college, and the building of a
stadium large enough to seat 20,-
000 people.
Details of the plan of gathering
the necessary funds for these ex
tensions will be determined by
the regents at another meeting
to be held in New York within
the next month.
C1PT. O'CONNOR IS
HEAD OF US
Laymen’s Association Of
ficial Chosen Commander
of Augusta Confederate
Survivors.
Augusta, Ga.—Capt. E. J. O’Con
nor, state vice-president for Augus
ta of the Catholic Laymen’s Associ
ation of Georgia,' was elected cap
tain commander of Camp 435 United
Confedei-ate Veterans at its annual
meeting in January.
_Capt. O’Connor has ever been ac
tive in the affairs of the Confeder
ate Vctci-ans since the men who
fought the War of the Sixties ban
ned together in their present organ
ization. He attends all state and
national encampments and is equal
ly active in the affairs of the local
camp. In commenting on his elec
tion, The Augusta Chi'onicle said:
“'The Chronicle salutes the new
captain-commander of the Augusta
camp of the United Confederate Vet
erans, Capt. E. J. O’Connor, who has
been chosen as head of the camp, is
a fine Augustan—a man of the old
school, an excellent citizen and a
loyal Confederate, and during the
war was as true a soldier, and as
courageous a soldier as ever pul on
a uniform of gray or marched with
Lee’s men. The Augusta camp hon
ored itself in honoring Capt. O’Con
nor.”
Another member of the. Catholic
Laymen’s Association has been hon
ored by the Confederate Veterans of
Georgia recently. James May, also
an active member of the Augusta
Post, U. C. V. James May, also an
active member of the Augusta Post,
U. C. V., has been appointed on the
staff of General Twiggs, commander
of the Georgia division, and given
the rank of major.
. DR. DONAHUE NAMED.
New York.—The Rev. Stephen J.
Donohue has been appointed secre
tary to Archbishop Hayes of New
York to succeed the Very Rev. Mon-
signor Joseph P. Dincen, who now
fills the position of chancellor of
the archdiocese, formerly held by
Monsignor Dunn. Father Donohue,
who is twe-ity-eight years old,
was born in New York and
graduated- from Holy Name School,
Amsterdam avenue and 96th Street.
He entei’ed Cathedral College and
won the Cardinal Farley medal for
general excellence, after which he
attended St. Joseph’s Seminary,
Dunwoodie. He later studied at the
American College in Rome, being
ordained in May, 1918.
Rev. Joseph Bassich, S. J.,
Takes Them at Impressive
Ceremony in Augusta.
Augusta, Ga.—Rev. Joseph Bas
sich, professor of rhetoric to the
junior scholastics of the Society of
Jesus at Sacred Heart College in
this city, made his final vows and
solemn profession in the Jesuit
Order at Sacred Heart Church,
Candlemas Day, Feb. 2.
The solemn profession of a Jesuit
is a ceremony very rare in the
South outside New Orleans. The
number of times final vows of a
member of the Jesuit order have
been received in this state is small,
and it is believed that the cere
mony has taken place in only two
Georgia cities, Macon and Augusta.
The vows were received by Rev.
P. A. Ryan, S. J., pastor of Sacred
Heart Church and superior of the
young men studying in the Augusta
college, who received authority for
the ceremony from the Father Gen
eral of the Society of Jesus at
Rome through Very Rev. Emil Mat-
tern, S. J., in charge of the Province
of New Orleans. Mr. Stanley Ma
her, S. J., of Augusta and Mr. George
Day, S. J., of Denver; Colo., Served
the Mass, which Father Ryan cele
brated. Father Ryan also delivered
the sermon on the occasion.
The vows taken by Father Bas
sich, erroneously known outside the
Church as the “Jesuit Oath,” must
be taken in public; otherwise they
would not be valid. On this occa
sion they were taken before a large
congregation of Augusta Catholics.
Sir Patrick Hugh Rice, K. S. G. and
Mr. John P. Mulherin were wit
nesses. The choir, under the direc
tion of Mr. Mulherin, sang the
Suscipe,” during the Mass, a hymn
significant of the offering the
priest taking the vows makes to
God of all his .talents, even his life.
Seated in the sanctuary during
the Mass were Rev. John W. Salter,
S. J., Master of Novices, St. Stan
islaus College, Macon, Rev. Rene
McCready, S. J., Rev. C. A. Mc-
Loughlin, S. J., and Itcv. M. Paris,
J., of Augusta, and the Jesuit
students at Sacred Heart College.
Mr. William Bassich, of New Or
leans, a brother of Father Bassich,
came to Augusta for the ceremony.
Father Bassich is a native of New
Orleans, and a graduate of the Im
maculate Conception College there.
He entered the noviate at Macon
about twenty years ago, studied
philosophy at St. Louis University,
and was ordained in 1918 by Arch
bishop Glennon. He has been en
gaged in educational work at Spring
Hill College, Mobile, and at Galves
ton, Texas, previous to his assign
ment to Georgia. His year of ter-
lianship, or study of Canon Law, he
spent in France.
Selected to Direct Br
of Catholic Laymen’s A
ciation for 1922.
Atlanta, Ga.—John M. Harrit
was elected president of the All,
ta branch of the Catholic Layme
Association of Georgia at the
nual meeting, succeeding WinC’
P. Jones. The other officers
were: First vice president, Miss K
Lynan; second vice president, 5
C. O. LaHatte; secretax-y, A. A. Bax
stark; treasurer, J. R. Havcrty.
ecutivc committee, the officers
Mrs. Joseph Moody, Winfield
Jones, Mi-s. J. W. Masscling, E.
Gunster, P. M. Lynch, and k
George Deihl.
Mr. Jones, whom Mr. Harrison si
cecds, retires after the most eve
ful and successful year in the 1
tory of the local branch of the L
men’s Association. The feature
the year was the state convent i
in Atlanta in September and the
tablishing of a new high stand
at that time for future convcnti
to aim at. Mr. Jones refused
consider re-election because of t
press of other business.
The Atlanta branch decided
hold monthly meetings of the t
cutivc committee and . quarte
meetings of the general membe*
CELESTE’S
NEW YORK AND
PARISIAN MILLINERY
946 Broad. Augusta, Ga.
UNEARTH ROMAN BUILDING
Paris—Excavations being carri
forward under the direction of
be Santel have uncovered the rui
of ancient Celtic and Roman buil
ings at Vaison in the Deparlme
of Vaucluse. Among these are t
remains o a Roman theater dati
from the first century, but wlii
was wrecked by the order of t
Roman authorities in the first cc
tury, but which was wrecked by t
order of the Roman authorities
the fifth century. Many statues a
objects of archaelogical intcre
have b li unearthed Abbe Santel
one of the greatest of Fi-ench a
thoi-ities in this field.
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Augusta, Ga.
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Savannah, Ga.
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AUGUSTA, GA.
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OFFICERS
HUGO I. FRANK, ' CHAS. F. FULTON,
President Chaii'man of the Board
CHAS. P. ROWLAND, DAVID W. ANDREWS,
Vice-President Secretary.
JOHN G. BUTLER
J. FERRIS CANN
W. M. CONEY
HUGO I. FRANK
CHAS. F. FULTON
DIRECTORS
C. J. HUNTER
HENRY McATPIN
W. B. McKINSTRY
HENRY N4NNINCA
F. H. OPPER
CHAS. P. ROWLAND