Publications of the Dramatic Museum of Columbia University in the City of New York: Papers on acting. 2nd series, Volume 1Dramatic museum of Columbia university, 1915 |
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Página 57 - it, even at times hesitating as if for want of words to frame the reply." Henry Irving, in an address on the 'Art of Acting,' delivered at Harvard University in 1885, is in accord with Jefferson: "It is necessary that the actor should learn to think before he speaks; a practise which, I believe, is very useful
Página 56 - knew then that I had been unconsciously falling into the same error, and I felt that the fault would increase rather than diminish with the time, if I could not hit upon some method to check it. I began by listening to each important question as tho it had
Página 56 - depth of feeling and sincerity that would naturally come from an honest man who had been for the first time in his life accused of theft. [But now] you speak it like one who has committed a great many thefts in his life and whose glib excuses are so pat and frequent that he is neither
Página 57 - before the tongue gives it words." (D). Here again a quotation may be adduced from Wilson's 'Jefferson': "It is a great mistake for the artist to attempt entirely to sink his individuality in the parts he
Página 30 - of professional humorists. The possibilities of the instrument as we have it to-day are infinite. But those who attempt to use it—the writers and makers and constructors of Drama, are, of course, very finite indeed. They must, as always,
Página 57 - himself in a multiplicity of parts, that he was always the same Irving. Certainly he was always faithful to himself, whatever he assumed. This is a sign of the presence of genius, not of its absence,
Página 57 - It is necessary that the actor should learn to think before he speaks; a
Página 56 - was a surprise in your face as tho you only then realized what you had done. You looked shockt and bewildered, and in a forlorn way seemed to cast about for words that would excuse the crime; and all this with a depth of feeling and sincerity that would naturally come from an honest man who had been for the first time in his life accused of theft.