FEBRUARY 20,1918.
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Head Hunter As Christ Plays In Passion Play In South Sea Islands
Professor Gage Tells Cerck Francais of Origin of Celebrated Play
Object, To Convert Heathen
With Judais represented by a Fiji robber, Saint Peter by a murderer, and the part of Christ played by a head hunter, the Passion Play was produced in the Marquesas Islands in the South Pacific, from the seventeenth century up to 1912. That was the subject of the talk given by Prof E. V. Gage before Cerule Francais yesterday afternoon.
Fiji Robber Back-slides, Loots Village and Escapes With Mary Magdalene
"In the seventeenth century," said Professor Gage, "The French established a penal colony for savages convicted of crime in their various colonial possessions. Almost immediately missionaries went from France to work among the criminals. They originated the idea of producing miniature plays intended to convert the heathen criminals." Thus the Passion Play was instituted in the Islands.
NATURE PROVIDED COSTUMES
The characters were the native criminals, and the costumes were criminally native. The head hunter who represented Christ was honored by having a costume like that of the highly respected missionaries. He were bald, and a long black coat and caricature umbrella. He never appeared without that umbrella which was the distinguishing badge of the brotherhood of early Christian missionaries.
Each year they gave the performance, until the Fiji robber who played Juske broke it up. One day in 1912, he obeyed that impulse. He back-slid.
The whole population of the island was sitting in natively naive enjoyment, with open mouths, and shining eyes, observing the play. Judas had finished his lines. He walked saddly off the stage announcing his intention to go and end it all. He was supposed to go and hang himself on a forest tree, and started off in the direction he watched him go, and then they turned back to the stage to see the rest of the action.
JUDAS DISAPPEARS WITH CASH
Suddenly Judas turned aside. He saw the town down in the valley and he saw the people at the play. The temptation was too much. He headed for the town. On the way he met Mary Magdalene. She, too, had been a robber before they took her to the penal colony. Joyously they hastened to the city. Rapucreously they looted it. Then, just before the play on the hill was over, they loaded the results of their raid upon a boat, and set sail. Presumably they lived happy ever after. At least they were never seen again in the Marquesas Islands and neither was the Passion Play again produced.
The war stopped the Passion Play in Oberammergau, and it may never be resumed again. Anton Lang, the Christus, who tried to live out the life of the Master, and was a humble carpenter, is now making coffins for those who have fallen in battle. The little town breathes war, not peace, and it is probable that it will never again be the same beautiful, peaceful place that lived for and in its great play.
By the Way
Sigma Xi Meets
Sigma Xi will meet Thursday, February 21, at 8 o'clock at the home of Professor F. E. Kester, 1612 Louisiana street, D. E. Bains will give a speech on his research in the United States as evidenced by Early Publications."
The board of electors will report for the election of new members.
Theta Sigma Phi
Theta Sigma Phi will meet in Fraser Rest Room Thursday at 3 o'clock
ser Rest Room Thursday at 3 o'clock. The program is in charge of Vivian Sturgeon and Mary Smith. The works of Mrs. Louisa Cook Don Carlos will be studied.
Sociology Club
The sociology club will meet Thursday night from 7 to 8 o'clock, in Room 4. Green Hall.
Varsity Club Card Party
The Varsity Club will give a card party tonight from 7 to 8 o'clock.
Church Club Dante
The Church Club will give a party
Thursday night in honor of Washington's birthday.
Church Club Dance
Watson Club Dance
the members of the Watson Club
will dance Thursday evening from 7
0 8 o'clock
Watson Club Dance
Walling Club Party
Walling Club Party
The Walling Club will give a dance
Friday night from 7 to 8 o'clock at
the house.
Pan-Hellenic Smoker
Pan-Hellenic Smoker
The Pan-Hellenic Smoker will be given February 27, at the Fraternal Aid Hall. Seven of the fraternal's sketches were started in practicing the sketches. Fred Rigby is chairman of the committee. The program will be published in a few days.
For Alpha Tau Soldiers
Alpha Tau Omega will entertain with a party at their house Thursday night. Several of their men from Funston are expected to be present
El Ateneo
Al Etenelo will meet in Room 314,
Fraser Hall, Thursday at 3 o'clock.
Roll call will be answered by jokes.
Short talks will be given by members of
Fraternity Bible lasses
The fraternity classes on the dis cussion of "The Social Principles of Jesus," will all begin next week, ac- ceed. The fraternity chosen by the respective fraternities.
Late arrival of books necessitates this postponement.
Mrs. Blair Sester of Hiawata will visit her daughter Ruth Sester, c'21, from Thursday to Sunday of this week.
George Smith who has been visiting at the Pht Kapp Pla House will write a book about it.
Fern Begholt, a special student in the College, left Tuesday to visit friends in Newkirk, Oklahoma. Miss Begholt will return Sunday night.
Miss Stella Hall, ex-c'19, will visit Aeo Hail, c'21 from Thursday to Sunday. Miss Hall is now teaching in the Buffalo public schools and is visiting here during teachers' association.
North A. Wright c'20, of Atchison who has been visiting friends here left yesterday to take up his work in the office and keep Wright enlisted about a month ago.
Gene Cook who has been visiting at the Kappa Sigma house has returned to his home in Cherryville.
James Orr went to Kansas City to day to be examined for aviation.
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Miss Ora Prather, a graduate student in the department of English, has left the University on account of eye strain. Miss Prather expects to complete her work in summer school. Lieut. Lavid Derge of Tallifero Field, Ft. Worth, Tex., is spending a furlough at the Kappa Sigma house. Lieutenant Derge will be here four days.
Miss Doris Rosser of Topeka will spend Friday and Saturday visiting friends at the Kappa Kappa Gamma house.
A knitted blanket has just been completed by the members of the Alpha Xi Delta sorority for the Red Cross.
Alpha Xi's Complete Blanket For Red Cross
The blanket which consists of thirty-five squares, has been made entirely by the young women of the sorority, each knitting one square. The blanket is made in the colors of the sorority with several squares of white background bearing a red cross. Other squares have the letters K. U. in red, standing out on a blue field. The material used in the Blanket sists of scraps of yarn. The blanket will be given to the Red Cross through the Woman's Student Govement Association.
W. M. Harrison, managing editor of The Daily Oklahoma and the Oklahoma City Times, will spend next Tuesday at the University of Oklahoma and will deliver two addresses before university organizations that day.
Three hundred and fifty-six students are enrolled in the department of mathematics at the University of Oklahoma this semester. One hundred and fifty-one people are taking Trigonometry and seventy-one are studying Analytic Geometry.
Prof. R. . Terrell went to Chicago, where he spent four days in the interest of the Roads School which is to be held at the University of Oklahoma from February 18 to the 23rd.
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The formal military ball which the aviators of the local School of Military Aeronautics will give tonight promises to be the largest dance given at the University of Illinois this year. Both floors of the Woman's Building will be used. Practically every member of the ground school and many men from Chanute Field plan to attend.
Money for the construction of a library and geology building at the University of Oklahoma and also for a state hospital, is now available as a result of a decision handed down by the supreme court. The decision makes available $650,000 appropriated by the last legislature for the construction of state buildings, including the three for the university.
A fourth class in ordance work is being organized and the school will be opened March 11 at the University of Oregon. Two classes have already been turned out and a third is at present engaged in, the six-weeks course offered.
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J. O. ARMOUR, head of the $500,000,000 packing concern bearing his name, was asked recently what unusual thing a certain employee did to merit advancement. "That man did nothing unusual," replied the packing house king, "But because he did do the usual things better is the reason he was promoted."
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True red-letter, whooper-up methods may attract attention for a moment, but their flagrant features can not hold an audience. Halley's Comet excited a lot of curiosity and attention for a while, but it soon passed and was forgotten.
The DAILY KANSAN is a steady cool-headed paper with one definite policy—to please its readers. And the heads of the paper adhere to this policy as closely as a navigator follows his charts.
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