"THE MIRACLE."

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1343, 22 January 1912, Page 5

"THE MIRACLE."

. g I AN ANTI-RITUALIST PROTEST. L By Tclecra-Dh—Press Association—CopyriEht London, January 10. Four thousand ministers attended a . matinee performance of "The Miracle" • playi Fifty Kensitites (anti-Ritualists) with t a "No Popery Banner," made a demonstration at the entrance, but the theatre f supernumeraries quickly routed them. Ono ICensitite was badly mobbed, and lay for some timo in a semi-conscious , condition. s Tho scenes of Professor Max RcinB hardt's play "The Miracle" are laid a Rhenish province in the 13th century. The lending character is a nun who has a yearning for the life of the outer world. The nun has a dream, in which Fate comes to her in tho guise of the _ Spielmann, a mystonons wandering minstrel with superhuman powers, who leads her out into the world and through' a series of adventures in which the tastes all th.c jovs and sorrows of humanity. Throughout those scenes the Spielmann t is ever attendant upon tho nun. Each new emotion she feels is inspired by his playing magic airs upon different instruments, and to each air she dances measures significant of her joy or sorrow. He is symbolic of Fate the Fiddler, she of a the Dance. Her ivorldly adventures continue until the second act, where, in the cathedral, there comes the miracle s which closes the piny. [f The play requires 2000 supernumeraries, i and for these 10,000 dresses were made, as ' the many changes of scene involved corL responding changes of costume, some of the performers appearing in 10 different guises. e 5