Arizona republican., 1908-11-11
NEW YORK SCHOOL
 TO CURE STAGE FRIGHT
Bankers, Real Estate Men, Lawyers, Studying to Speak on Their Feet Childish Tongue Twisters.

New York, Nov 10-(Specfal cor respondence of The Republican.)- The sight or rather the sound of some three hundred of New York's prominent financial. real estate and legal lights. assembling gravely in an auditorium and reciting in all seri- ousness, the following:
 Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers"
 How much would a woodchuck chuck, if a woodchuck could chuck wood?"
 Six slim slick slender saplings'- is the educational novelty of the year in the metropolis. Well known bankers and lawyers, whose fees are are corporation size, realty auction eers, who can charm dollars out of excited pockets, all gravely recite these well known tongue trippers popular with the children.
 These may follow by remarking to each other:
 "Ba-pa, be-pe. bi-pi, bo-po, bu-pu. boo-pOo, boi-poi.''
 And when 300 gruff voiced or shrill voiced New Workers who have been talking all their lives against the roar of the elevated road, the cacophony of the Subway. the noise of flat wheeled trolleys or the pan demonium of Change, begin their "ba- -pa-ing," the ordinary college yell is lullaby.
 And the whistles of the air brakes in the Sub" are pleasing in their sibilance to a little thing like this:
 Thrice six thick thistle sticks thrust straight through the throbbing thrushes." This is called the "Ziss' sentence by the irreverent.
 This seemingly frivolous occupa- tion. however, is one of the lessons in the newly established school to cure stage fright now being operated by the West Side Y. NJ c. A. The official name of the institution is the Public Speakers Club" but it's pur- pose is to give nerve to New Workers who can talk deal though like a master when they are seated in their office, but who stutter and stammer and say Err" Err" between every word when they try to speak on their feet after dinner, or from a rostrum. For oddly enough it has been found that many men who sup posedly are compendiums of courage and nerve and grit. simply can not face an audience. Their ideas take wing, their vocabularies desert them and Err" Err" is the important feature of their speeches. The di- rectors of the club are determined that in the vocabulary of New York -hnn hn e Err" Still it is realized that Too err is human
 The drill on the tongue traps is given by Glenville Kleiser, formerly professor of public speaking at Yale, to give lips and glottis practice in clear enunciation. He listens to the progress of the "saplings" or the thistle as rendered by 300 voices, much as the orchestra leader studies the work of all his instruments with the object of detecting faulty execu- tion After the class has by practice become able to get vowels and con- sonants with true values, the in structor puts them on the "Gettys- burg speech" and begins to insist on emphasis as well as clearness of enunciation.
 The members in groups of twenty five are brought to the stage and called uponto deliver the Four score and seven years ago" until MF Klei ser is partly satisfied. Then comes "The Impeachment of Warrent Has tings," extracts from Hamlet and variety of selections containing vocal traps for the unwary and tricks of aGcanfial bringing out the true meaning.
 The final stages will give individ- nals an opportunity to occupy the stage and recite the stirring words of others and later make mock speeches to a real and critical audi ence which is not at all above laugh CTS attitude or delivery. In this re- spect. the class exactly duplicates the conditions that the prospective De- mosthenes must face when he takes the stump or faces a group of ban queters. But before he has reached this stage, Mir. Kleiser, the instructor, and the Y. M. c. A. people believe that the tongue twisters and the chorus work will get the students beyond the stage of shaking knees and voices that go soaring up to a shrill treble through nervousness when the speaker really intended to emit a deep and convincing basso profundo noise.
 The interest shown in the class has been somewhat remarkable. One of the leading advertising men in the United States is a student and he made a trip from Philadelphia back to New York and returned by the midnight train to the Quaker City so that he would not lose d single bit of practice on 'ba-pa" and wood chuck and the rest of it. All sorts and conditions of men attend these classes in the Y. M. c. A. audi torium. There is the man who wants to rise to a position in his lodge; there is the consulting lawyer who is anxious to come out into court and jury practice; there is the po- litical speaker who has found that misuse of his throat in the open air is leading to complications; there is