Word: ifs
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Articulation is at the same time the lowest and the highest aim of the comedian's art. It is that which is at all times necessary, especially when one appears to the public. The theatre is not a room: it is necessary to speak loudly and audibly on the stage...
Always have some sort of an experience in your eye. If you have something to recite, direct your eye on a certain spot and the public will imagine they see what you are relating.
The comedian must at all times remain master of himself. He must see what he is doing. He should carefully study his role, and enter into the personages he is to portray. The saying if you want to make me cry, cry yourself," does not apply to the comedian. A...
The Atlantic Monthly for November is an exceptionally good number. The great variety of subjects treated makes the magazine acceptable to every taste. The serials are "Passe Rose," by A. S. Hardy; and "The Despot of Broomsedge Cove," by Miss Murfree. Mr. Downes' fifth paper on "Boston Painters and Paintings...
The fourth and last of the Dudleian lectures was given last evening by Professor George P. Fisher, D. D. of Yale University. Paul Dudley. the founder of the course, was a Harvard graduate and became a Chief Justice of Massachus tts. According to his instructions the lecture was purely defensive...