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Applications for tickets for Mr. Henry Miller's performance of "The Faith Healer" by R. V. Moody '93 in Sanders Theatre on Monday, January 24, must be in the hands of Dr. K. G. T. Webster, 19 Ash street, Cambridge, by 6 o'clock this evening. The tickets for reserved seats are $1.50 each, and application blanks may be obtained at the Co-operative Society Store...
William Vaughn Moody, whose play "The Faith Healer" is to be produced in Sanders Theatre on January 24 by Mr. Henry Miller and his professional company, graduated from Harvard in the class of 1893. While in College he was an editor of the Monthly and at the graduation of his class was class poet. After taking his A.M. degree in 1894, he went to the University of Chicago as an instructor in English. Since then he has been made a professor in the same department...
...first dramatic production was "The Great Divide," which was played, by Mr. Miller in New York for two years. The recent publication of Mr. Moody's "The Faith Healer" has again set people commenting, criticising, and guessing. In both plays we face drama not merely entertaining or amusing, but stimulative of thought about certain phases of American life,--stimulating because conceived in thought and developed by close thinking. His is the power to present striking and suggestive ideas by dramatic situations, with a characterization delicate or vigorous as he pleases, in a phrasing of a literary quality unusual...
...performance of Mr. W. V. Moody's "Faith Healer" in Sanders Theatre on January 24 is the first professional production of a modern play by a Harvard graduate under the auspices of the University. Some years ago a group of amateurs gave, in Sanders Theatre by invitation of the Department of English, Professor Barrett Wendell's "Raleigh in Guiana." The recent performance by the Dramatic Club of Mr. Percy MacKaye's "Scarecrow" was the first presentation at Harvard of a play by one of the younger graduates already well known for his dramatic work. The ver- sion of the "Faith...
...time of the "Faith Healer" is the present. The place is an isolated farmhouse near a small town in the Middle West. A lonely shepherd, Ulrich Michaelis, wanders into a Missouri hamlet, where he heals through faith. How he lost his gift through love of a woman, and how he recovers it, are told in three acts of increasing dramatic intensity. Though there is a touch of mysticism throughout the play, and the spiritual element is strong, neither is allowed to dominate the dramatic telling of the present-day story. Michaelis, according to Mr. Moody's own description...