... MR. CARL ROSA SPEAKS. At the Royal Court Theatre, Liverpool, a perform. ance of The Star of the North brought the Carl Rosa two months' opera season to a close last Saturday night the house being then crowded to its fullest limits. At the end of the second ...

... art of speaking well, and might be subdivided into conviction, per- seasion, style, and delivery. It was with the last of these sub- divisions, delivery or elocution, that they had to deal. Elocution he defined as the art of reading and speaking distinctly ...

... splendid composition afforded I3. De Pachmann the fullest opportunity for the display of his remarkable talent. Here Chopin speaks to the hearer, not only with tenderness and grace, but with fiery posver and unrestrained 1assion. There is a tone of wild ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... both in prose and poetry entirely from memory. Nature has done much for Mr Kirwan in endowing him with a fine, resonant speaking voice and a manly physique, though this latter is not of so much importance on the platform. He scarcely did justice to the ...

... rather than advances her position in doing so. Our task is a more grateful one in speaking of other items of the performance. Of Mr Macleani's Sir Peter Teazle we can speak with cordial commendation as an example of careful and competent acting, and the ...

... been determined to speak out ; but in fairness to him it must be said that Lawyer Surplus entirely spoilt his best effort. The remaining gentle- men were more or less incapable, with the exception of Mr W. Halley, of whom we shall speak presently. The ladies ...