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Title: Bright days in sunny lands
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Honeyman, A. Van Doren (Abraham Van Doren), 1849-1936
Subjects: Voyages and travels
Publisher: Plainfield, N.J., Honeyman and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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e sameprofound interest. At the usual early hour of eightin the morning everything was hushed to quiet, andagain at the theatre the scenes came on, one by one,exactly as before; not an actor missing, not a motheror babe of the * multitude in Jerusalem away, nota singer less; and the wonder of it, and the dramaticpower and tenderness of it, grew and widened in mysoul, till I wished—hopeless wish!—that I might missno future acting of the Passion Play for all that sum-mer. Beside me sat an American who had gone tohear it once, as a critic. He spoke to me during amoment of pause—which rarely came during thehours of the performance—and this is what he said:This is my eighth Sunday; I cannot go away,for I amlearning more of true acting from these peasants thanI ever knew in all my life. His judgment was not in error. Beside those val-ley peasants, our American, EngHsh, or French,not to say German, painted men and women, who uni-formly desecrate every true drama rendered in our vari-
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THE PASSION PLAY OF 1900 297 ous cities, shrink into pigmies. At OberammergauI began to believe that great acting can only beperformed by men too humble to sham, and too sincereto practice the average stage frauds. Such actors wereto be found among the best of the old Greeks; andsuch were those humble folk who took part in thePassion Play the last year preceding the opening ofthis Twentieth Century. 19 XVII.—GLIMPSES AT SOME POTENTATES. THE OPPORTUNITY has never come to me tobe introduced to royalty, and the loss of ithas never been felt. But there are those whowould give a share of their earthly fortune to bend thebody low, in a profound bow, before some of thesovereigns of the courts of Europe. For such readersof this book there may be an interest felt in the few glimpses of sovereigns recorded in the followingnarrative. My first sight of a real, live king was over aquarter of a century ago. Then for the first time Ifound myself in what was known as, and is sometimesstill called,

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