The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-08-24
Up ,NENIERGAU VILLAGE AS
I'm At ITS DAILY WORK.
..oous and Religious Are PeO-
.1o The Wonderful Portrayal
If the Traitor Judas.

ple. The Wonderful fortrayal
Of the Traitor Judas.
most fascinating place is Ober-
.-.r,orqau. One calls it village
,l..onsa it is impossible to think of
&c . town, in spite of its 1850
.,,obi+ants. 1t seems to be built
how The houses are white, with
,,a,,-browed red roofs. Many of
ehor, are gaily painted, not only as
+nair woodwork and with quaint
,,rfcas around the windows and
soors but with pictures, sacred and
nrofane, and one of them has the
-.bora of its wall space decorated in
.his wav with frescoes done a hun
5ra5 Years ago by a great master in
I.o art The tortuouS streets are
fIl1 of little shops and some big
anos i'm most of which carvings are
IispIayed for sale, and in this festi-
,,al wear there are temporary booths
7.o.idas for the sale of post cards
w o+hnr things that the modern
+rovoler has need of. The rocky
,r,,orntains clothed with dark pines,
and stfIl in part snow-covered, rise
", other side, and on the summit
Of +he highest peak is an enormous
wooden cross so far above you that
Il looks as if it were made of match
wood writes Archibald Marshall in
an interesting article in the London
Daily Mail.
As YOU walk about the streets and
tba country roads almost every one
Won meet halls you with a "Gruss
Gott," and the men and boys raise
their green, feather hats. They are
the most courteous and gentleman
nered people l have ever met, and
think the most truly religious. You
soon ger used to the long hair of the
men even when you see it on the
road sweepers. The true Ober-Am-
mergau never cuts his hair.
Players in Daily Life.
It is worth while staying in Ober-
Ammergau for day or two before
or after a performance, if only to
see the players going about their
daily work. You recognize a girl
who serves you in a shop-a smiling
German Fraulein with her fair hair
neatly plaited-as one of the sweet
singers in the choir of Guardian
Angels when she wore a robe of
gold and purple over her white, grid
led garment, and her hair fell from
beneath her crown to below her
waist. An urchin padding in the
mud outside the school house stood
with arms outsTetched for full two
minutes in one of the tableauX and
never stirred At the blacksmith S
forge a man with a noble, classical
face and gray hair and beard is shoe
ing horse. Yesterday he was for
the third time leader of the chorus,
d kingly figure in gold crown and
scarlet robe, with a fine voice and
splendid dignity of bearing. Ey-
erywhere you meet familiar faces,
for during the long hours of the per-
Torrance they have stamped them
selves in your memory.
was taken to the house of Johann
f~NANh' anu We WGl6 0lOWn lnJO q
brightly-painted room with an old
porcelain stove in the corner. A
SWeet-faced young girl talked with
US for little and then said she
would go and fetch her father. She
was Ottilie Twink, who takes the part
of Mary, the Mother of Jesus. She
IS not yet 20, but she is already
spoken of as one of the best repre-
sentatiVes of her difficult part that
the play has ever had. She is the
Mater DolOrosa, her voice full of
piercing sorrow and her eyes OF
tears.
Presently her father came in, a
gray-haired man with a kindly, some
what pathetic face. He is a house
painter, and he apologized, for the
state of his working clothes. He has
gone through many troubles, and
only recently lost his eldest son, who
mad been a hopeless invalid for ten
years, He had been Isaac in the ia
OIeaUX of 1900, and it is said that he
contracted the rheumatic fever from