Round About Paris Oberammergau Corsica PDF Download

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 edition. Excerpt: ...is the most I conspicuous inno _., ) uA vation. The roof., /lid1 is supported by: ix steel arches, the span of which is one hundred and forty feet. There are four thousand seats and fourteen.entrances. An en gineer from Munich designed the building, and superintended the construction, that THE GUARDIAN KOFEL roused my interest in this decennial presentation--John L. Stoddard. It was as fellow-spectators of the Passion Play in 1890 that our acquaintance was begun, and I recall the pride I felt when Mr. Stoddard, in his lecture on the play, given the following winter, spoke of his meeting with the young man from Chicago, who had come to Oberammergau because he heard about it in a Stoddard lecture in the year 1881. The old stage has a new glass roof and is surrounded by a concrete wall instead of wooden palings, but in other respects it is the same as it appeared the left and be crude tempora ten yearsago. On hind it are the ry structures in which are the dressing-rooms and the restau-players, for rant for the the drama The first performance, or more correctly, what is. known as the l ' public rehearsal, was given on I l the 20th of May. Then followed the twenty-seven regular pres-caumum entations, eighteen on Sundays, nine on holy days. There were 0 many extra performances to accommo-date the overflowing audiences. The season ended early in October. At eight o'clock streams of spec-tators began to flow toward the theater, filtering in through the entrances and trickling down the broad isles. The seats were made for spectators of Spartan fortitude, for they are built of wooden slats, unusually hard, with interstices just broad enough to realize the acme of discomfort, and with backs so low that it is preferable to...