The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-09-16

counting of the silver and the eagerness
Of the money lenders. The opening
| words, rs my Fathers house a house
of merchandise thrown against this
| background. drop at once into your mind
the long struggle getween getting for
self and forgetting self, and as the es-
| Gaping doves, the symbols of patience
and acceptable sacrifice, fly over the
heads of the audience and away, you in
voluntarily ask your own heart which
side you have CHOSEN.
Anton Lang, personating Christs phys
icaI experiences, does not at all try to
act, he simply lives it. He is a large
strongly built young man, a potter by
trade and his face is very noble. The
flowing hair, light brown, and the beard.
strengthen this, and the patient passivi-
ty with which he goes through the ex-
periences adapts itself well 10 the gem
eral feeling.
The act closes with Nathaniel persuad-
ing the people not to follow the new
teacher, and with the populace crying
1--WE have Moses, away with all others"
The tableaux for the second act is the
children of Jacob on the Plains of Dor
than. and the act the meeting Of the
Sanhedrin. The dignity OF the members
Of this high council is wonderfully shown
but their vindictive hatred toward any
belief not their own. their determination
that they and their council should be
Judaism, was brought before the audi
ence in an overpoweriug manner Their
willingness to use any means and the
cry Of Annas at the last OF the act,
The God of our Fathers give us the
victory" shows how far they had gone
in feeling from that Of chosen peo-
pie"
The first tableaux for the third act is
the apocrvpha story of Tobias. The ef-
fort they have made for accuracy was
nowhere more shown than the long
training that must have been given %
the dog in this act. He stood by his
master looking far away in the direc-
ton they were 10 go, and with the ex-
ception of yawning was unmoveable
through five minutes The second
tableaux was the Bride lamenting the
absent Bridegroom in the Song Of Sol
ONION. The solo and chorus were
beautiful. The voices were all good ana
some of them remarkably so, and the
orchestra work was very weeI done The
scene was the farewell Of Bethany and
the meeting in Simon's house. With the
spiIling Of the precious ointment. Judas
acting begins. and suffering as part Of +
Christian experience. with the parting at /.
Bethany.
The next tahIeaux foreshadovs the /
doom Of Jerusalem In Ahasuerus reiec- /
ton Of WASN'T. The act is the weeping !
over Jerusalem, and the second scene /
Judas bargaining with the temple deal (
ers The tabIeaux before the scene OF (
the Last Supper are the Mama in the
Wilderness and the Return Of the Spies. T
These were perfectly wonderful 70 ne
Four hundred and fifty people in the 4
central stage. including many children
The coIoring brought out BY the clothing;
the upiifted hands: the rays q sunlight; /
the birds chir1ing over our heads; ths
hills before; the combined effect OF TIE
place. and the people, and the bit of
statuesque Promised Land lie before Us.
was very impressive
The scene Of the Last Supper Is an
exact COPY " Leonardo d. Vi7cfs
picture and was wonderfully beautiful
as wei as profoundly solemn could
not have believed that such a scene
could b made sacred with the COM
olexities o. cur Belief and thought Per
haps The heart - humanity nay y. a.
ter all. stiI simple Pray God that Il =.
WIKI the perceptions going out % Judas,
he ned had begun
The tableagx vas the selling x Joseph;
he cat. Judas before the Sanhsdrin. Al.
how he argues with himself that nothing
wrong can come q il. and = there should
christ Is 80 sood he viii throw himself
u HIS feet ard - forgiven ard. b.
'ides forgiveness. have thirty pieces e
silver. TIE life e Judas : voaderflily
irawn- the mar would D. uarve5ous
.ctor anywhere. and I an sure lssr vlth
many az his hearers that day trench
iouS lessons.
The ssblesux before The Garden -
we're Adam under the Curse
nd Josb's assassination OF Ar1asa
I have had Ions Ioag thoughts trying
o understand that L nan woGld dn5
lis tie he must loose Il. but il was IRE
lorter and the csrvsrs q Oberansnergau
hat made We kn2w With a vlvldnsss thai
mast abide forever that TIE divine z Is
eElns Only whsu W subject ourselves ]
5solutely 70 the wsl Of the Eternal
From ne eishSh 70 the fifteenth act
keeping the tenth. was taken % vita
he trial ana condemnation TIE d.
srninatiou q the HIgH Priest. ths
saseA :a- false Witnesses tie denial e