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...lines of the author, and neglecting to correctly impersonate the character. The college actor should remember that he is merely a color in a pattern, a part of a "stock company", not a star of the evening. Professor baker stated that the only way to build up a role is to study stage directions as well as lines. The actor must act emotionally as well as with his mind, must study every aspect of the character which he is to interpret. He also emphasized the need of a warm, colored voice upon the stage, the lack of which would destroy...
...inclined to shudder at the addition of yet another club to the already long role of Harvard's non-social organizations. Almost every conceivable interest and movement finally results in the birth of a formal association. Some of these last six months, some struggle faintly for a year or so against the tide of more powerful attractions, and a few become permanent. It seems at last as though there were no room for more organizations...
...many courses in the University are conducted, the captious student often fails to appreciate fully the fact that it is no simple task for a professor to step down from the platform and view in retrospect faults in his system. If the latter were able to assume the dual role of lecturer and critic, even then it would not be surprising if many of the weaknesses in his treatment of the subject were overlooked...
...role of confidant in Greek tragedy...
...cons of the Parsifal question, of considerable moment since the expiration of the Bayrenth copyright. There seems to be a slight inconsistency between the statement that Parsifal as a character is one of Wagner's dramatic failures and the following acknowledgement that a good singing actor can make the role entirely convincing. But all this is not to carp unduly. The problem in all criticism, musical or general, is how to hold the balance true between courage and personal conviction and a broad estimate of different aspects. The unsigned accounts of the individuality and style of Erie Satie, in which...