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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...
...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 Healer" to be used at the Harvard performance 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 purposes...
...before renouncing them for good. His face shows the effect of sleeplessness, and his grey flannel shirt and coarse clothing are crumpled and neglected." The role of Michaelis is in striking contrast to that of Steven Ghent in "The Great Divide," but like Ghent's it calls for Mr. Miller's repressed style of acting and quiet authority. Mr. Miller as Michaelis, will be supported by a company as strong as the original cast which appeared with him in Mr. Moody's first play, "The Great Divide." It will be remembered that this play ran two years in New York...