New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-03-15
STILL LECTURES EVERYWHERE.
PEASANT PASSION PLAY-MR- SEKVIos
AND Mr. rREELAND CONTINUE
THEIR COURSES

At Dnly's Theatre. yesterday afternoon. an suos
ence Of fair size listened TO an account OF pas.
sion play performed by Austrian peasants. ana
looked Mt pictures OF the same. II Is understood
that efforts have been made recently to induce the
villagers Of Ohera to give speciai pers
Torrance OF their play for the purposes or photo-
graphing It for the cinematograph, but they are
so Jealous ard 50 jealous In guarding Their pay
from any except that OF he fulfment. every
ten years. OF the made two centuries and q
half ago by their ancestors. that they would NOT
hear Of such n thing.
But tho peasants o. Hor!z. III Bohemia were
willing that pictures Of their play should be mads'
and these pictures were shown a, Days yester.
day In sense. the passion play NJ Horits 10
older than that OF Obcrammergau, ard In a sense
I, IS not old. Miracle plays have been an Inc
stitu,ion ir the Bohemian village for moro centu'
rics than in the Bavnrian one but the play now
exhibited on the screen originated early IN the
present century. II Is performed ut irregular Inc
,crva's. and at different times thc Older miracle
plays kept up. TIE village has n large play
house. The pictures were taken Of 4 special per-
formancc for tho purpose last summer, when the
play had 70 be done out Of doors as the proper
light for photogrnphine could not pa obtained In
tho theatre
According 70 the Of l;s krd. hi, play
takes nearly all day. that IL IS. OF oouTse. possi-
bic 10 show only small part OF II within tho
time permitted for lecture Such selections
were shown, however, ns 10 give pretty ciedr Ioe1
OF the scope OF tho eor, NJ reproducing the scenes
Of the passion Tho effect best be summed
UP by the statement that Horl;z appears TO be
lesser Oberammergau. but It. p!ny Is also more
primitive. ard hence nearer 10 what these
mysteries were when they were m institution all
Europe. This IS shown IN tho ruder stage
mechanisms. IN tho attemp; to cover greater
amount OF Scripture history. and IN other ways.
Tho moving pictures were com nendabiy clear pre-
sentlng sometimes scenes OF considerable dura.
ton. The descriptive lecture given by Pro.
fessor Ernest Lacy. Of the philadelphia High
to be repeated every day for three weeks, at y
a. m. on Mondays Wednesdays. Thursdays and
Saturdays. and at p m. on Tuesdays ana
Fridays.
William Treeland yesterday morning continued
his Of Illustrated lectures for the beneht OF
the Chapel Hill Fresh Air Mission at Wallacks
on The French Revolution and tho Empire
new lecture on Mountain Climbing IN Swlt1er.
land" will be given this afternoon and tomorrow
morning. and the last OF the series. on "A Ceiling
Trip Through Scotland" will be offered on Thurs
day afternoon and Friday morning.
Theatre yesterday. was on spain: The Land Of
change has been made in Mr. Seryiss's programme
for this week This morning he WI speak ro OK
morrow tho lectur" Will be IN the AFTERNOON az
o'clock instead Of IN the morning: and the SUP:
tect Will be The Romance Of the RHINE, in asa'
subject Is Napoleon Bonnpartc. Friday lect"re
will he In the afternoon, on Paris: the Capitai Q.
william Tell and the Romance OF the Alps" VIII
Richard I.c Caffeine talked ard read to a small
assembly n, the Lyceurn Theatre yesterday after:
noon His subiect was THE Second Coming OF
the Ideal" AT the same place, to-day, az S3o
p M. he will read selections from his writings