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From tIt i to ex]still tsumeandrusheit wa McAn vanla press other pion.so thgreathaveKittythereexpecTining c and lt;The c liftin: owne Md., ting i her £ Then hands 4pn £ introiLalt;and 1 the g her o showbe di Lay inin a hospital. People talk about acting as if it were a sort of falsifying of human nature. In reality, it is the only way you can express yourself. I thinK it is true that the man who can act best on the whole will be the most successful man. I do not mean he will be the man who will make the most money. 1 mean he is the man who will stand most successfully for the things he wants to -for; * The healthful and I’iatmr drama has always been that expression of the people. I imagine the beginning of all drama was simply as that/'WHY A BTZAXTISE ZOGOTHMT3B?The Lateflt Tcddyinm Start# dictionary Page# co Tiiruftnjg.From the Chicago Newt*.There was a rustling of dictionaries and a twisting of tongues all over Chicago as folks groped for the meaning of Colonel Roosevelt’s latest term of denunciation—“Byzantine logothete/'The awesome term overshadowedACTING is as common a thing to ail of you in your everyday lives as it is to me in my professional life/' Granville Barker told the students of the English department at Harvard recently.Men and women act from the cradle to the grave. They dramatize their whole lives by instinct. Acting is nat-wS-fcft'iSttiversal. The people oi' the stage devote all of their business time to it and become experts. The rest of us don’t. But we are every bit as theatrical.This view comes from one of the leading dramatic authorities. Granville Barker as a manager, producer and actor commands the highest respect in the world of the theater in America and in England.“There are two ways in most countries of studying the theater/’ Mr. Barker said. “One way you adopted here;wiFrom 1Star/“It’sup laisn’tThi%for nIf Th man it, ittunitOncallsweekmenttimes“IfsidersaysworkweektenorsingWeissuetheir passi ways mode hope the s to so at thGazeling rEr bring horse Yes, and enou guesi a he makf seem Y o u lSt; we c fromvade Zum tain, a miwith your father for example, in the morning, you do not as you take your bath catch yourself saying, I shall say so ami so, he will reply thus and thus, and then I shall say so and so. You dramatize the whole scene as you go down to that unpleasant intefview. Sometimes it doesn’t come off as you thought it would. He. didn’t take up your cues. He plays the scene in a different way; he plays you off the stage. You see ho has dramatized the thing himself, he has done it in his own way, and perhaps he is rather more expert in his way than you are in y.ours.“It is the man who is the best actor who will manage to get the best of it in tho interview. Why? Because acting does not mean pretending to he somebody else. That is the lowest form. What it means, as 1 take it, is the interpretation of what you are through the medium of your own personality, There is not very great difference tu principle between an actor interpreting Hamlet ou the stage ana a judge interpreting justice on the bench or a doctor interpreting medicine1An ihv \nrw Holl On,Frown th^ Atlautto Monthly.You remarked fatuously the other day, “I'm just as young as I ever was.” Oh. no. you’re not! If young people weren’t too polite, they’d soon undeceive you. You have been so busy leading a successful life, that you have forgotten to uotiee that your successful life has been led. Youth is flouting you every day. Youth is through with you. You appeal to it for recognition, and it laughs at you.You still young? You? No, indeed! hook at real youth pursuing its fantastic preferences: at Reginald Warneford. engaging a Zeppelin single handed, in regions near the sun: at Otto von Wed-digen leaving his bride to carry on a desperate warfare under seas,Do you honestly sympathize with them?“Gsoimir v v a says aftei how threahave get 1 ence of a“IafteiTribkno^Dlt;specRU8CThespecItnUoonM an Water Finder#.Baboons possess a remarkable instinctfor finding water, and are used for that purpose in South Africa.TlNew a bou char
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Kansas City Times
Kansas City, Missouri, US
Sat, Dec 11, 1915
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