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These and the other characters are likely to be observed playing cards during the evenings at the Hotel Alte Post. Fanni, a large waitress with an enormous goitre, circulates briskly with bubbling seidels. One may also see the town's chief radio dealer, who wears a swooping beard and a medieval smock which smothers his ankles. or a clean-shaven, spruce young fellow in a well-tailored sack suit who sells Biblical images and avidly studies history. In one corner is likely to be another modern, slightly sour-looking youth—Oberammergau's intellectual, who reads Freud, Jung and Adler and despises the Passion Play. Those who have an introduction may be able to chat over the steins with Alois Lang himself. He talks of his War experiences. But he does not dwell on their grisly side, on his own hand-grenade wounds. Instead, he says: "Every mortally wounded soldier I ever saw who had time to think before he died called on God."
* Painted at Oberammergau for TIME by Artist Adolf Dehn of Berlin.