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...finest and most amusing moments in the play is John Coe's portrayal of a revivalist minister. Likewise played with a subtle sense of humour is the shipping clerk by Michael Linenthall. Patricia Leatham as a waitress who is our hero's extra-curricular love handles her role with a wonderful fay tenderness, Richard Gediman as president delivers a fine set speech on the wonders of the "industrial South...
...fatherly lecture to the assembled villagers. His message: Communists are your enemies; report them instead of supporting them. (Said an aborigine leader: "Such a big man. Such a big voice. No wonder he is Sultan.") Some times the Sultan asked Communists in the crowd to step forward, like a revivalist calling on sinners to repent. But there the resemblance ended. The Sultan danced, sang and feasted with the villagers far into the morning, then retired, often in the company of a village maiden...
...drawing 6,000 Miamians nightly, he saw no healing efforts, wrote a tolerantly favorable story. But the next night he witnessed some "cures"-and started digging. On the Herald's front page he showed that there had been no real changes in the physical conditions of Miamians the revivalist had claimed to cure. Taft found, for example, that a crippled woman who had ostentatiously flung aside a pair of crutches had never ordinarily used them. Taft also showed that Coe stood to clear $30,000 in profit from his Miami appearances...
...Floor. "Getting saved made many great changes for me," wrote Roberts in his autobiography (100,000 copies sold, at $1.50 each). This is probably the only understatement of which he has ever been guilty. The son of a struggling revivalist preacher in Ada, Okla., he was, at the age of 16, at "the end of the way," afflicted with tuberculosis and stuttering. Despairing of his life, his family took him to a revivalist healer. On the way, God spoke to him for the first time in an audible voice. Said He: "Son, I am going to heal...
...Mordecai Fowler Ham, a fiery-eyed, long-fingered Kentucky revivalist, began to blaze away at Charlotte from a tabernacle on the edge of town. Billy Frank Graham somehow sensed that he was a sitting duck for Mordecai Ham, and carefully stayed away. Finally, at his mother's urging, Billy went to the tabernacle with his good friend. Grady Wilson. For a week the two boys quailed under the gimlet gaze of Mordecai. who seemed to be searching out their most secret sins. Then they joined the choir so they could stand behind him, but there was no hiding place...