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William Vaughn Moody's the "Faith Healer" is a play which will never make a wide appeal, but the appeal will be all the deeper where it is felt. The situation is too outside our ordinary experience to be clear at once. It deals with the subtle psychic forces in our lives, the certain, but, as yet, not understood influence of character upon character...
...audience sits hushed during the first act, trying to get into the situation. An understanding of the character of the "Faith Healer" is difficult to many and the failure to comprehend and unquestioningly accept the fundamental thesis will make a full appreciation of the play impossible. The point, the accumulative effect of the play is apt to be lost because Mr. Moody has chosen, for the central figure, a man, so little a type and so much an individual that he has too little in common with human nature at large to be readily understood. What we fail to understand...
...versions of the "Faith Healer" to be used tonight is a complete rewriting of the play since its publication, Both the author and Mr. Miller feel that, while preserving all the merits of the original form, it is even better for acting...
...time of the "Faith Healer" is the present. The place is an isolated farm-house 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, and 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...
SPECIAL PERFORMANCE OF MR. WILLIAM VAUGHN MOODY'S PLAY, "THE FAITH HEALER." Mr. Henry Miller and Company, under the auspices of the Department of English. Sanders Theatre, 8 P.M. Admission by ticket only. Tickets, with reserved seats, at $1.50 each, on sale at Kent's University Bookstore, Harvard square, Cambridge, and at Herrick's Copley square, Boston. Admission tickets, at 50 cents each, may be obtained at the University Bookstore, and at the Auditor's Office, Memorial Hall, on the evening of the performance...