The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-12-10
A NIGHT WITH WARMAN
He Speaks of the DeIsarte Phi.
losophy of Expression.

LIZ LIZ w III QOuNclluR Ills second
lecture last night at the Metropolitan Tenn
pie, on which occasion his subject was "The
Delsarte Philosophy Of Expression" must
have been gratiied with two things-the in
tellectual and refined character of his audi
ence, and the warm expression of feeling
and admiration that was rendered him at the
close by those who remained to shake him
by the hand and express to him the grati6.
cation they had experienced in listening to
the words he uttered. From beginning to
end his talk was lesson, and none were too
old or too young not to profit by what he
said
His lecture was illustrated by charts, in
which man was constructed as a pyramid,
controlled by the trinity-mental, moral and
vital. He was subdiyided into trinites. all
subject to the one mentioned, as follows !:
The head, the heart and the abdomen; re-
Elective, affective and sensitive; cold, warm
and merry; thinking, loving and feeling;
frozen, liquid and steam; dsputatious,
emotional and antagonistic; radical. medium
and terminal; rising, monotone ana falling:
sour, sweet and bitter; melody, harmony
and rhythm; driver, passenger and horse
designs, purposes ana constructs; articula-
uCn, gesture and voice: guides, impelS and
sustains; number, weight and measure; eye
brow, upper-lid and lvwer-lid; sol, mi and
do; summit center and base; precision, har-
mony and ease; pupil, iris and white; wis
dom, love and power; to know, to do and to
be. Each Of the trniteS was treated in its
proper relation to man or woman.
Mir. WarmaD opened his discourse by Civ
ing brief history of Delsarte, and the liv-
ing principle upon which he based his sys-
tenn, which was that what is lacking in
quantity is always made up in quality"
Delsarte was poor boy in Paris, whose &C.
cupation was rag picking. Upon one occa-
sion Bambini. The great master, discovered
the boy IN the garden OF the Tuilleries trac-
ing characters in the Sand while the band
was playing He asked him what he was
doing, and was told that he was writing
down the music. The discovery that the
boy possessed an undeveloped power in
duced the great master to give him instruc-
tons, and his progress was 50 marvellous that
the poor boy became ambitious to appear
in opera. He importuned the manager of
the theater 1or permission to sing but one
song, put his ragged and f0rlorn appearance
were so much against him that he was
driven from the stage door. Nothing dis
couraged, he became importunate, until
finally, i'll order to get rid OF him, the mana
ger ordered piano to be run on the stage
ana told him that If he made failure he
would have him arrested if he ever appeared
at the stage door again. He walked upon
the stage in his rags and the audience
hoOted and jeered. but the moment his
fingers touched the keys they recognized the
master and his success was Complete, He
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of nourlShmeDt to the body had done its
work, and, aftsr short triumph, his
voice failed. He then commenced teaching
his system, aud to-day the world acknowl-
edges its force.
The Delsarte philosophy is the true phil
osophy, because it is natural aud not arti-
fetal. Keeping the pyramid before the man,
note that IL is divided into tn rec parts: the
apex or mental, the center or moral, the
base or vital. 1t is impossible to conceive
Of anything in nature that is not q trinity
Even dot has length. breadth and thick
ness. The fact that the Delsarte or natural
philosophy is the true one is recognized by
actors, clergymen and public speakers of all
kinds. II is the quality of the voice and not
its quantity that controls. The manager OF
John Mccullough, the greatest delineator
Of the character of Virginius that ever lived,
said that he sunk $4,000 on the great actor
before he learned the art of being natural
Even Forrest whose acting was of tho
{pbust kind, admitted short time
before his death that the Delsarte
philosophy was the correct one, and that
1t had thrown floods Of light upon his minu
Mary Anderson, on the last occasion of her
visit TO San Francisco, sent East for her in
suructor, and paid his expenses and So so
an hour during certain lessons she was
compelled to take in order that she might
be perfect in q certain character. Salvini
studied three years with Delsarte. The
speaker illustrated his subject, as he pro-
ceeded with his discourse, by quotations
from the poets and from Shakespeare, and
the different effects produced by rendering
the same matter in different tones gestures
and infections were wonderful. A passage
which read or recited one way would pro-
duce tears, in another aud different way
would excite laughter.
The motions of the hand, without word
being spoken, would create an impression.
A boy who asked certain question in q GER
tain Whn scratched hic haa1 nnlx,
endeayOring TO ind language in which to
clothe a lie. These were emotional move
ments, and all things being equal, they car
ried their own meaning. The bark of q dog
illustrated trinity of conditions: The
yelpipg eur that would bark but not bite,
the bark that was preceded by tho low
grosl. and the bark of the dog that was
glad to see you, and known by the wag of
his tail. dog that wags his tail when he
barks does not Intend to bite. Another
illustration was the mother, who told her
child she would whip her if she did thus and
SO. The child did what she was forbidden to
do, and came back to the mother with
smile. and was met with n smile. 1t knew
the mother would not whip il, by the man
ner in which the threat was made. A ris-
ing infection In the voice shows that the
person who makes use Of 1t can exercise no
contIol. He showed how women who are
great controllers in schools and in their
families are those women who thoroughly
understand human nature. Even the wall.
Of person was an index as to character,
and the way he eXempified this caused an
explosion Of laughter. A person should al
ways feel their reserved power. He showed
how persons often marred an otherwise
credltable performance by the manner in
which they closed their subject, and how
minister detracted from the sacredness of
his position by snatching hymn book or
Bible from the reading desk as though it
were an almanac.
Sweeten your voices and you will sweeten
your lives and your homes. In connection
with this remark he told how last winter q
large, magnificent looking man. who proved
to be minister of the gospel from the East,
made life burdens0me to the passengers on
the cars and also to his own wife coming
over, by his continual growing at eyery-
thing. Delsarte teaches man to control
himself, and this stands hand in hand with
pure religion. Ii you meet a man, make
him feel better for coming within your radi-
alton, and If you have not got it in you, get
1t there as soon as possible. The applica-
ton Of the discourse was as showing that
man Is but radiation from the finite to the
infinite. As the subject is entirely too broad
in its bearings to be considered in one short
evening, Mr.. Warman will continue the
same line Of thought on Saturday evening.
celebrating his remarks of last night. There
Will DO but three more of these talks.
Two Election Cont.sts
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