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Show 80 or HANDBc)OK FOR TEACHERS OF INTERPRETATION observing people in real life, on the stage or platform, that we the emotions. can have any idea of the great and varied gamut of The him. around all the The child imitates in his acting play suffi older child should do the same thing until he has accumulated never. be will emotions-which of his cient models to play satisfy The mote experience we have, whether vicarious or real, the greater to understand life and to live to the fullest. will be our ability Vocal Development. Remember that voice is developed, made what was said pliant and beautiful through the pupil to assist to aim this under Chapter V in Part I, and use of voice. gain a better quality of tone and greater responsiveness idea is the behind emotion and Rant. As long as the feeling ofranting. Overdoing comes paramount you need not be afraid can from a forcing process, pretense of more feeling than the pupil emotion. Refer to Such pretense manifests itself in action without a comfort which is overaction. Urge your students to feel will to produce. purpose, able and to make their audience feel comfortable. that they will have healthy, This will mean well-balanced, comfortable and comfort a good Ranting is the true-plus-and will give musician the audience the same sensation as a false note gives giving emotions. a shiver. Here we run into the question of whether become like a character into or not it will tend to make a pupil If so, would it not be wise whose conception he reads himself. This is a question. immoral characterizations? never to "Like Begets Like?" study bad, Actors who repeat characters through a whole lifetime do like them. Why? unpleasant to Because there is the inner man a not become wholesome reaction which is of him who is impersonating such reader or "Iago"; this reaction tends to make the or his deeds. actor refrain from the practice of either his precepts which would make But beware of cheap literature, or "movies," the murderer, and the thief. comfortable and attractive the villain, characters as maudlin Sunday School This does not mean that there must be a the inner reaction shall that it-but be to everything-far moral the bad, the low, the corrupt be healthily toward good and against which may tend to vitiate the best ideals of civilization. -anything In every selection, allow all freedom and abandon to gesture |
