The Sedalia Democrat from Sedalia, Missouri • Page 10

FACE TEN THE SEDALIA. DEMOCRAT TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1931 ROBES ENTIRE STOCK Men Women's and Children's Blanket Flannel Silk Robes. A good selection of kinds and Choice Now at PRICE ROBES 5.00 Robes $2.50 6.50 Robes 9.75 Robes $12.50 Robes BLANKET ROBES $3.98 Robes $5.98 Robes $2.99 $4.88 $6.25 DOWN STAIRS ROBES $1.98 Robes 99c $2.98 Robes $1.49 SEE WINDOW DISPLAY. S. Ohio The Store for all the Family.

Sedalia mi '3y Mess ee I High School Student III Miss Mabel Lacey, a student of Smith Cotton high school, residing at 1810 South Harrison avenue, is absent from her studies on account of illness. For Better Mileage and Greater Power, Less Carbon and No Knock Use MONARKI KANT-NOX I GASOLINE I 500 West Main 24 HOUR SERVICE r. Mr. Levy In Recital Ellis Levy, St. Louis violinist, who will appear in recital before the Helen G.

Steele Music club Wednesday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock in the club, was a next door neighbor during his childhood, of the late James Whitcomb Riley, the This was in Indianapolis, where the violinist was born. Riley expressed his admiration for the young musician in many ways, and his friendship was an inspiration and encouragement to Mr. Levy during the early years of his career. Mr. Levy was a favorite pupil of Eugene Ysaye, Ceasar Thompson, and Emile Sauret.

His American teachers were Hugh McGibeny and Joseph T. As a composer he has contributed various compositions to the repertoire. A group of them will be heard in his recital before the music club. Accompanying Mr. Levy will be Miss Mabel DeWitt, accomplished pianist of the Helen G.

Steele Music club. Wednesday recital will be complimentary to members of the club who must present their membership cards at the door. Members will not be permitted to use guest cards, but may invite guests by paying the customary fee for each. Told of Passion Play Miss Mary Fisher of the English department of the Marshall, high school, was the speaker at Sorosis Monday afternoon. Miss Fisher, who visited Europe the past summer, gave her Impressions of the Passion Play at Oberammergau, which she witnessed.

Her audience listened with a great deal of interest. In 1633 there was a great pleague in that little Bavarian city, which wiped out 85 of its almost 600 population, she said. It was at this time that the people of Oberammergau pledged themselves to give the Passion Play every ten years if the Lord would take away the pleague. They gave it in 1634 and although it had been given previously, they presented it every ten years thereafter with few exceptions, one of which was during the world war. In 1933, three hundred years will have elapsed since the pleague although the play was given in 1930, it will be again presented in 1933 in the observance of the 300th anniversary.

Last summer, the presentation opened on May 11 and continued until September 28. It was given three times weekly, until because of the large crowds who came to see it, it was necessary to give it as many as five times a week. Visitors to Oberammergan during the time of the Passion Play must be satisfied with whatever accommodations they can get, and are taken into the homes. Miss Fisher stated that she lived in the home of a peasant, slept feather as is the custom, and that lier quarters were comfortable. The weather, she said was damp and cold.

Laden with pillow and blankets, the patrons enter the Roman theater, which has a roof which covers the audience but not the stage or wings on either side. Be- for each scene there is a tableau in preparation for the scene to fol- MID-WINTER SALE EXCEPTIONAL BED ROOM VALUE fine Bed Room Suite Value, 3 Pieces Only 107 .50 This exceptional suite, as sketched above, is constructed of genuine walnut veneers. Beautiful burl walnut veneers are used on the fronts, and fine rotary cut veneers on sides and tops. Interiors of white oak for strength and dustproof partitions thruout. Choice of either poster or straight end bed.

ODD VANITIES, CHESTS, DRESSERS GREATLY REDUCED DURING SALE OMiO SI SEDALIA low. Tableaus are presented on the center of the stage, and the play continues on the wings, this preventing a waste of time for the scenes. Many children take part and although held often as long as 10 minutes, never more. Tableaus are beautifully costumed, posed and grouped. Costumes are of beautiful material, much being of Oriental fabrics.

Voices are excellent, and each act splendidly portrayed. Musical scores which have been written by the people, have been changed from year to year, and are now back to their original score. They are kept locked when not in use, and are not allowed to be copied. There is nothing amateurish about the music or the presentation, according to Miss Fisher, who said it was a finished production in every sense of the word. YV hile the stage production is given in German, there are translated programs, but to any one familiar with the Bible it is not necessary to have the translated score.

The play begins at 8 in the morning. The audience is dismissed at a quarter to twelve. It returns shortly after one The play is given in three scenes, with 12 parts. The first act covers from the entrance into Jerusalem to Gethsemane and the second from Gethsemane to the Condemnation by Pilate while the third treats of the Condemnation to the Resurrection. There are more than 500 people in the mob, according to Miss Marshall, who stated that one forgets in witnessing the play that he is in a theater, but imagines he is on the street in the city witnessing the mob Characters are chosen, the speaker said, by election two years before each presentation.

They are chosen by a committee of ten. The people live the parts and practice all of the time, their lines. Even the children live the lives they enact on the stage. Miss Fisher stated that she stopped a little child on the street one day and asked to see her books, and that they contained hymns and prayers. They are a religious people, she said, and truly live the lives they portray as they have for generations.

During the time the Passion Play is being presented, the people of the village dress in native costume. However, they do not at other times. The young men wear their hair to the shoulders. It has been charged that the village has commercialized the Passion Play, Miss Fisher said, but this is not true. The state does not assist them in any way, she said, and for a couple of hundred years the play was not supporting itself, but now it is, she said.

The citizens of the town have a foreward in the books of the play. They say that it is made possible through the living willingness to sacrifice. Aloys Lang, who portrays Christ, hangs on the cross for fifteen minutes. He practiced this for months before the production before he was able to accomplish this as he hangs by holding on to wooden pegs with three of his fingers, with the index finger pointing upward. Anton Lang, who was the Christ of this production for a number of years, has reached the age when he no longer is allowed to portray the part.

He now reads the prologue. Mrs. J. M. Johannes and Mrs.

J. B. Harris, both of whom witnessed last production of the Passion Play augmented Miss talk with tales of their experiences. Mrs. Johannes was quartered in the home of Judas Iscariot.

Two nights lodging, with five meals and tickets for the Passion Play, amounted to seven or eight dollars, she said. Both she and Mrs. Harris told of witnessing the play when rain was pouring upon the stage. The actors are prepared for such emergencies, they stated and at this time were obliged to change costumes three times. Mrs.

Harry Sneed, the president, presided over the business routine, and Mrs. Gilbert V. Jones recorded the minutes. Next speaker was announced as Mrs. A.

R. Browne, of Kansas City, who made a world tour during last summer with a party. Her subject will be Study Club Thursday morning study club will meet at 9:15 Thursday morning at the home of Mrs. W. L.

Erman, 519 West Fifth street. Mrs. Erman will be in charge of the study lesson, the subject to be Medo-Persian if- St. St. Guild Owing to the Helen C.

Music club program Wedni terne i presenting Ellis Levy Louis violinist in recital at the club, the meeting of St. Martha's Guild of Calvary Episcopal church at the home of Mrs. J. W. Carlisle of 1019 West Sixth street, has been changed from 2:30 until 3:30 that afternoon.

Mission Book Review The Auxiliary of Calvary Episcopal church met in regular session Monday afternoon at the rec- Lawrence Frank Barnett Hayes LAWYERS Katy Bldg Phone 638 tory 111 East Broadway, with Mrs. vY. G. Harter as hostess. the principal feature of the meeting was the reviewing of a section of this Mission Study book Expanding bv Mrs! Ada Inge.

Members present, who numbered twenty-eight, listened with a great deal of interest to the reading which was ably given and vhich was most instructive. Mrs. Inge has consented to continue this review, giving a portion at each meeting. Members are grateful for this courtesy. All women of the church are invited to these auxiliary meetings.

Monday business session was in charge of the president, J. M. Hinman. Mrs. C.

R. Campbell, secretary, recorded the minutes. During the social hour, refreshments were served. Silver Wedding Anniversary Relatives and friends of Mr. and Mrs.

D. V. Ferguson of Windsor, numbering about sixty, gathered at their home Sunday, to assist in the celebration of their twenty-fifth wedding anniversary. Among those present from Sedalia were Mr. and Mrs.

S. B. Walkup and family, and Mr. and Mrs. R.

Lacey. Others present were Mr. and Mrs. R. C.

Clark and family, Mr. and Mrs. James Woolridge, and George Carter, all of Windsor; Mr. and Mrs. C.

E. Walkup and family, and Mr. and Mrs. W. B.

Walkup and family and Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Acker, all of near Windsor; Mr. and Mrs. G.

H. Phillips, and family; J. W. Agee and family; Mr. and Mrs.

Benton Ball, Addison Ball, all of Versailles; Mr. and Mrs. S. A. Swisher and family; Mr.

and Mrs. Paul Gregory and Mr. and Mrs. C. E.

Charles, all of Knob Noster. PERSONALS C. F. Ernst and Mrs. Ernst, have returned from a six weeks vacation, having visited their daughter, Mrs.

E. A. Duensing and family at Concordia, and with relatives out in Kansas. Mrs. Robert Ramsey of 1101 South Ohio avenue, accompanied by Mr.

and Mrs. Douglas Hughes of Manitou, left Tuesday for a visit in Kansas City, and Leavenworth, Kansas. Mrs. Raymond Smythe, daughter- in-law of Mr. Edwin Smythe.

proprietor of the Smythe Battery Service Station, arrived Monday night for a visit with Mr. Smythe and her husband, who has been in Sedalia for the past several days on business. DEPUTIES AFTER ALLEGED SLAYER By The Associated Press. POPLAR BLUFF, Feb. Sheriff Pete Robertson today had sent deputies to Dallas, Texas, for B.

L. Simmons, of Caruthersville, held at Dallas in connection with the fatal shooting of U. J. Haynes, 35, a Pascola, merchant in a holdup the night of January 22. Simmons vras arrested on request of the sheriff.

Two other men are sought for the robbery and shooting. Haynes heard burglars attempting to enter his store late at night. He obtained a gun and went to the store. When he covered the robbers, one wrested the gun from him and fired. The charge struck Playnes in the face and he died two days later In a Memphis, hospital.

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killed in a rooming house brawl last April. Ecclesine, gray haired, middle- aged construction superintendent, was one of the roomers at the house. He was the first witness to testify to seeing Maxon hit Paynter. He was awakened on the night of the killing, he said, by James McGarry, the porter, and they went to room to examine a gas leak. Ecclesine went down to telephone the gas company, he said.

While he was at the telephone, Maxon came back up the stairway again, followed by Paynter. Paynter was trying to persuade Maxon to go to his own room. take care of things Paynter said, according to Ecclesine. Then Maxon turned around and kicked Paynter down the said the witness. went down into the kitchen.

Mrs. Hickey was lying on the floor by the piano. McGarry and Paynter and Maxon were there. Maxon pushed a table out of the way, grabbed a chair, hit Paynter, knocked him across the room, and Paynter fell in front of the Maxon struck Paynter repeatedly, he said, until the chair broke. Then he jumped on him and kicked him.

TRIUMPH FOR A SILENT MOVIE By The Associated Press. CHICAGO, Feb. small haired man, last of silent movie stars, sole defender of panto- mine on the silver screen, stopped off on a cross-continent trip today still beaming from the reception given his latest picture. the first important non-dialogue picture since the advent of the talkies, scored one of most spectacular triumphs at its opening Friday night and Charles Chaplin, headed for New York and another opening, was still over ASSERTS THAT TIME LOVE By The Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA, Feb.

time is love time, and any time is a good time to preach on this great says Dr. Clarence A. Spaulding, of Santa Barbara, chairman of the educational committee of the Presbyterian commission on marriage, divorce and remarriage. Dr. Spaulding, it was announced at the Presbyterian church offices here today, has sent a message to the ten thousand ministers of the denomination proposing St.

season as the occasion for every minister to preach a sermon or series of sermons on the subject of and message is perhaps more needed by this bewildered he said. The commission on marriage, divorce and remarriage will meet in Pittsburgh next month to plan its report to be presented to the Presbyterian general assembly in May. PRIMARY MEASURE FAILS IN KANSAS 271 PHONi EXPERT REPAIR SERVICE FOR YOU We make no charge for inspecting heating stoves, cook stoves and furnaces, etc. We gladly get repairs for any stove or furnace you may have. Early action prevents possible delay on repairs needed.

By The Associated Press. TOPEKA, Feb. the second time in two years a presidential primary measure has failed of enactment by the Kansas legislature. By a vote of 23 to 14, the senate turned down the proposal after its adoption by the house. Two years ago the senate passed the measure but the bill failed when the house and senate were unable to agree on some amendments.

The bill had the support of Gov. Harry H. Woodring, democrat, as well as that of many republicans. It would enable voters to express preferences for candidates for the party nominations for president and vice-president and elect delegates to the national conventions. The delegates now are chosen at state and district conventions.

FAVORABLE REPORT UPON DAVIS BILL By The Associated Press. WASHINGTON, Feb. senate manufacturers committee today ordered a favorable report on the Davis bill requiring government contractors to pay workers up to the prevailing local wage scale. The measure was introduced by Senator Davis, republican, Pennsylvania, a former secretary of labor. It was endorsed by Secretary Doak, his successor in the labor post, and by Assistant Secretary Heath, of the treasury department.

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