... we were present on Saturday night would fairly justify us in the use of a far stronger term than that above expressed in speaking of one Hutton, the individual responsible for bringing together a crew of incompetents on Saturday last on to the stage of ...

... justice to say thait they did not seem to reiqure the aid of a prompter, or miapronoonce their words: as mnany persons do who speak publicly in places of this kind. The pleasant, ladylike accent with which Miss Rose Montague, 'wh6' asumed the name of Kate ...

... consider the members of this Club, generally speaking, very defective in their elocution. There is no art or style about it. Its chief fault is the want of naturalness. Some talk altogether with the lips, and others speak from the throat only, instead of letting ...

... coarseness, as in all that Aphra Biehn wrote; but we are coming to the English Harlequin directly. His name was Jevons, a speaking Harlequin, and a very clever fellow indeed, with something of the Vokes Family; some- thing of Fred. Evans, something of ...

... separate two things which ought to he inseparable; the art of reciting verses and that of playing them, the art of speak- ing as passion should speak, poetically, and that of acting as it acts. Yet for more than two hundred years each of these two systems has ...

... now speaking of the time when dramatic exhibitions bad their origin among the Greeks. I am not speaking of the time when Rome placed her actors in the lowest class, despised them, and deprived them of the right of suffrage. I am not even speaking of a ...

... rising tiwice during the one night. Another speaks of her herines eyes 'flasbing fire in the moonlight, which, Of course, is arrant nonserise. But it is of the great dramatists, ancient and modern, we would speak. iame of the most amusing slips ever committed ...

... version were given without the aid of either book or prompter. This, to commence with, is a most commendable feat of memory, and speaks eloquently of industrious study ; while we may further state that the reciter displayed an intelligent apprecia- tion of the ...

... a remarkably intelligent manner that one is tempted to believe they could speak if they would but try, whilst the way in which they carry out the tasks allotted to them speaks volumes for the patience that must have been exercised in their training. The ...

... late popelar actor who used to give such a sharp, hard articulation to the first two consonants in chivalry, affectation in speaking has long been a temptation that artists have frequently yielded to, although we must admit that it is a fault much rarer ...

... spoken about and recommended in a forcible way. A necessity had been felt from the earliest times to have a class of persons to speak about it with an authority that could not be disputed, and these persons, assuming a part which did not fall to them, naturally ...

... ought to be grateful to Mr. M. for speaking out at such a time, and endeavouring to make the Stratford pilgrimage an agent of good for the modern stage. With regard to the modern race of actors I may, as a layman, speak, if not more freely, at all events ...