Word: stagings
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Miller has been connected with the stage in the capacities of author, actor and manager for nearly thirty years. His success in 1906 in "The Great Divide," by Mr. Moody, was phenomenal. This play ran nearly two years in New York and was presented for four months in London, where Mr. Miller received marked tributes from the leading dramatic critics...
...Faith Healer" was acted for the first time on any stage in the Savoy Theatre in New York last Thursday evening by Henry Miller and his company. Throughout the play Mr. Miller contrived to invest the character of the "Faith Healer" with a pathetic dignity and to illumine it with a touch of real imagination. His reading of the many beautiful lines was excellent, and was heard "by a house for the moment hushed and awed by things that were of the spirit...
...Faith Healer') we face drama not merely entertaining or amusing, but stimulative of thought about certain phases of American life--stimulative because conceived in thought and developed by close thinking. Again, too, we face the unconventional, for in 'The Great Divide' Mr. Moody handles situations from which our stage even a decade ago would have shrunk in timid trembling, and in the 'Faith Healer' he enters the field of religious belief, a subject, till within something like a decade, thoroughly taboo for our drama...
...impulsive and the sophisticated and acquired in our natures is at the centre of both plays. 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 on our stage. Already Mr. Moody is in the forefront of our dramatists. If he at all fulfills his promise, the will be one of those who will vindicate the rights of our nascent drama to be placed side by side with the Continental so far as thoughtful yet genuinely dramatic consideration of subtle...
...LECTURE under the joint Auspices of the Dramatic Club, and the Pen and Brush Club. "Stage Settings and the Modern Stage. Mr. Frank Couteau Brown, Editor of the Architectural Review. Large Lecture Room, Robinson Hall...