Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-05-09
Pleasing Entertainment Given
Last Night in Wilder Halt
Under Local Auspices.
THE STORY IN BRIEF.
Told as Pictures Were Shown
Local Audience Greatly
Interested.

Wilder hall was well filed last night
by an appreciative audience who wit.
messed the beautiful sacred story
"Parsifal" in moving pictures given
under the auspices of the Epworth
League, OF Simpson NJ. +. church.
Miss Anna Delony Martin inter
preted the play in manner which
left no doubt in the minds of hel
hearers as to the theme of the story.
She gave short description of the
origin and first production of the play
in little town in northern Germany.
to which iourneyed many crowned
heads to witness the first performance.
The original play took ten hours for
production, but Miss Martin has given
''Parsifaln in condensed form, the
time OF which is one and one half
hours and still has lost nothing of the
original theme.
The play is founded upon the holy
grail, the sacred cup from which
Christ drank at the last supper and
from which he drank when upon the
cross. The grail and the sacred spear,
with which Christ was killed upon
the cross, is in the keeping of Il COM
pany Of men in the temple of this
holy grail in the mountains of Gothic
Spain.
The play is proceeded by prologue.
The entrance to the temple of the holy
grail is shown and l<lingsor, world
! ly man. seeks admission to the holy
grail. He finds that only those having
led a pure life are eligible to admit
tance to the temple, and repulsed and
crestfallen he determines by evil ways
to tempt the Knights of the Grail and
obtain possession OF the grail and
spear. Evil summons Kurdry, sorce-
ress, who is in his power. Herzeloid
appears with the child Parsifal.
Herzeloid and Parsifal have no home
but wander through the forests. Am
fortas is crowned keeper of the grail
upon the death OF his predecessor.
Kundry, at the instigation of King
sor obtains possession OF the spear
from Amfortas, and wounds him with
it. Klngsor escapes into the forest
with the spear, followed by the
knights of the Grail and the child
Parsifal.
Act one opens fifteen years later in
a forest near the lake where the
Temple of the Holy Grail is situated
Amfortas, who is an invalid from the
spear wound received at the hands of
Kundry, is being taken to his booth.
Kundry, who has risked her life in
India to obtain balsaam for Amfortas'
wound, appears and offers it to Am
fortas. Parsifal who has grown to
manhood, is brought in and reproached
for killing the sacred white swain
whereupon he renounces his ways of
the forest, Evil, who sees that Kundry
is getting from his power, casts a
spell about her and she succumbs.
Scene two of act one shows the
Temple OF the Holy Grail and the
knights entering the temple. Parsi-
fal Is among them, but is unmoved at
the ceremony over the holy grail. He
does not understand the significance
of the ceremony and is renounced and
sent from the temple as one not eligi-
BILE to be knight of the holy grail.
Act two shows Klingsor's enchanted
castle with its gardens and flower
girls. The garden is situated a short
way outside the temple, for the pur-
pose of tempting the knights of the
grail, that Klingsor may now obtain
possession of the grail.
Parsifal enters the magic garden,
but is invulnerable to the wiles of the
flower maidens. Kundry is summoned,
but is repulsed and in desperation
at his unsuccessful attempt to leat
Parsifal into the path of evil, King
sor hurls the sacred spear at Parsifa
to kill him, but Parsifal catches tht
spear, and in an instant the magic
garden is destroyed.
Scene one act three show a land
scape near the Temple of the Hol,
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