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Show HANDBOOK FOR TEACHERS OF INTERPRETATION 34 does so much to make one appear to be the master of the situation, and make one's bearing dignified and pleasing to the eye as repose. to read to, or to address, an assemblage of persons, "After rising quite Always wait till your auditors Your waiting with composure will never fail to impress your are do not be in haste to begin. still. auditors favorably. "Be sparing with your gestures. Make but erally makes fully six times too many. few. The tyro gen Let those you do make be from the chest rather than (I would say be in Every impulse to action should always harmonious body itiated at the chest. This makes for unified and made from the shoulder. from the shoulder. Little gestures made from the elbow are meaningless. nothing to do with your hands, don't do anything movement.) When you have with them." 4 we I t is impossible to cover the field of action in one chapter so Delsarte "The detail in teacher the that recommend study would Delaumosne and Arnaud. of Oratory," by Mackaye. The very best body training for expressive exercises which were developed gesture can be had by practicing the American the pupil of Francois Delsarte. only by Steel Mackaye, to train the body to become exercises these Mr. Mackaye elaborated System Steel responsive to the principles of his master. Geor The author would recommend the books of Mrs. Eleanor 5 are books in exercises these The Stebbins." and Genevieve gan very carefully described and understand or say regarding illustrated and are not difficult to execute; but pay no attention to what these women the exercise as a physical development; these exer diametrically opposed to gymnastics; for "Delsarte" exer cises aim to give control of the body through the least expenditure of energy; (Delsarte said, "Grace is force in ease.") while physical training aims to secure physical strength by the greatest expenditure cises are of energy. The two kinds of exercises-the one for control and the other for relaxation-will give the student mastery of every part of the body ' I of Elocution." Culture-Butterick and Co. Eleanor Georgan, Delsarte Physical S. Genevieve Stebbins, Delsarte System of Expression-Edgar New York. 4 Ayres, "Essentials 5 6 Werner ' |
