The Side Will Be Conducted by Mr. THOMAS E. KIRBY
?>id hl< Mr. OT i n RKKNK I ami Mr. II. II. P \I?KK
AMERICAN ART ASSOCIATION, Mgr?.
M?<ll?nn *i|. Sniilh, Kntr?m# n r. Slrnrl. York
4The Faith Healer
a Dramatic Film
Full of Action
Miss Florence Vidor
"The Faith Healer" at the Criterion
wlll^lift th>- rage behold-i out of him
self, though it will not cure 1J roadway
habitues of their chronic complaint ?
anaemia of the pocketbook. After the
widespread popularity o? "The Miracle
M in" it waa but natural that the late
Wiiiiain Vaughn Moody's stage success
should be lifted upon the screen, and
George Melford has done It for Para
mour.; with due restraint and insight,
making i..? achievement that is likely to
inter'st w.-.rd heelers us well as faith
healer.--.
Xo more than In the sponen produc
tion js tins film adaptation by the play
wright's wife and Z. Wall Covington a
preachment, though the name of Moody
has been prominently identified with re
vivals. The story of the sheep herder
who answers what he feels is a divine
| call to heal sickness, who makes a
i miraculous cure of a bedridden woman
j and who temporarily loses his power be
cause he is fearful of his love for her
niece, is done with simple, human direct
ness that turn? it into a drama of tiia
everyday within the reach of every
li'.uii's experience.
