Evening journal., 1911-03-31
TIN CAN AS
STATE EMBLEM
DR.. Temple, in Passion Play
Lecture Prelude, Says 1t
Stands for Ownership
SHACKS ALSO IISGSACE
THE STATE, PASTOR SAYS

The Rev. DR.. William Temple lee
tured on the Passion Play" to an
audience that filed every available
inch in the Ursuline Academy lecture +
hall last night. The lecture wa IL
lustrated with many slides showing
Ole ammergau, the characters, and
tableaux and acts in the play. DR..
Temple preiaced his address with
praise Of the vgor and fine character
of the German people, whom he said
he considered the foremost nation In
the world at the present day. He said
It was impossible to find in Germany
people dwelling in the sort Of shacks
that disgraced Delaware. that there
were more really poor people in
Browntown than there we're IN
Munich, and IN speaking Of the fiow-
ers so abounding In Germany. he said
he thought the tin can was the favor
ite decoration in Wilmington yards
and vacant lots. He said that when
/ he went down to Dover to urge the
/ Legislature to do something for tho
children working i'm the canneries, ha
discovered that in Delaware the can
was a true emblem of ownership.
Or. Temple vigorously disclaimed
the criticism made by some tourists
that the Oberammergau villagers were
commerelalizing the Passion Play,
saying there was no spirit of the sort,
and that a Yankee managing the play
would make twenty times the profit
out of It. illustrating the sincerity
Of the villagers, he said that he was
asked to make out his own bill where
he boarded, and his young lanc(
lady, the Magdalen IN the play. put
the money in her pocket without
counting It: not even in Ireland had
that befallen him. On the contrary
he said he felt ashamed Of his fellow
Americans who bought penny post
cards and came in troops for the Mag
dalen TO give her autograph and write
a line upon them. DR.. Temple said
that the villagers in this little Catho-
lie town Of 1,600 inhabitants. were
cultured and extremely well-edu
Gated, but withal simple and not
ashamed to work The beautiful
young woman who was the Magdalen
prepared breakfast before the play,
took her part In the production, last
, ing from 8 IN the morning until
e o'clock at night, and prenared din
3 ner. She knew all the Wagneriar
operas by heart, and was iattered b.
ali the tourists. but had no NOR
vanit- than a child.
He aid he had been to all tn
worlds greatest productions In IN
greatest theatres, and heard the grea
est singers and actors, but NO opel
or theatrical production could for q
instant compare. even from an arti'
tic point OF view, with the Passio
Play. He said It was like looking 2
hundreds of paintings by the old mas
ters. DR.. Temple said there would b'
tableau from the Old Testament
then a chorus telling how this tab
leau shadowed forth the next act OF
the plav which followed thirdly. For
instance the despair Of Cain when he
had slain Abel, foretold the despair
of Judas after the betrayal DR.. Tenn
ple said that all were so strongly I'M
, pressed by the intense human love
between Christ, his blessed mother
and his disciples. that Protestantsl
Catholics, Jews and non-helievers n
the audience cried like children over
the parting scenes He said he con-
sidered Judas the best actor, In fact
Judas was so in earnest that he very
nearly actually hanged himself III
Z 1900. and had 70 be cut down. DR.
e Temple said that, although the pla,
lasted without an instant's cessation
s for eight hours. the audience were
@ held IN breathless attention the whole
y time.