The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-12-19

steriiiied and sanitary climax on the
market. have offered to teach Le-
land Powers, Alontavllle, Flowers
and the rest of them my secrets, for
| will be dead afterwhile and must
, pass them on. To get this climax IL
IL absolutely necessary to have
voice. You must train your voice
You must get your voice up in your
+, nose to get the resonance. Thus You
need a nose--and a large one. You
should spend several years singing
this: "e-e-e-e.r Notice It appears to
come from my nose Go out and
listen to the pigs sqeual and do like
1 wise. ! will sing that zee" clear
up to the top of the keyboard. I
was years getting that. You must
, learn to bite the tone off by the
F., ears as 1t comes out. While train
Ing your voice be careful OF your
1 diet. Eat something every few days
II you have to steal It. If you find
/ that your tones mellow down like
mine, chew up some laundry soap.
; This will mellow the tones and make
them cleaner. 1t Is a good plan
. at first to take each tone and rub
, 1t down with sandDaper or pumice
stone. | worked years under em-
inent teachers, who died, one by one.
al approach my climax boldly and
grasp IL by the tail. fear no climax.
, regardless Of age, politics, color or
, previous condition Of servitude. I
1 execute them all equally well.
, tear them TO tatters. Take, for in
! stance, something Shakespearian, and
see how ! shake Il. Take that one
OF Mark Antony in that late un-
fortunate affair with Caesar. You
have read II all in the Sunday pa
pers; how Caesar comes to a bad end
by mixing in politics, when he
should have stuck to writing COM
mentaries for high schools where he
was making a good living and paying
off the mortgage.
| First picture the scene. You must
/ always picture the scene. even If you
have to hang up a piature Of the
, scene where dull audience can see
] it,. Caesar Is laid out, and the bier
, Is ready. This is a wet climax
therefore bier is permissible, on the
stage. Caesar lies over there on the
bier. Brutus has gone out to buy
crepe for his hat. Mrs. Caesar is
settling up with the insurance peo-
pie. The undertaken has agreed to
furnish a funeral and eight carts for
hundred sestertla. The newspa-
per reporters have all gone out. An
tony Is let alone with the bier. He
approaches He Is overcome with
emotion. He emotes. You must
learn how to emotc.
o, pardon me, thou bleeding piece
OF clay,
That am meek and gentle with
these butchers!
You note start this down in the
patent leather register. See how he
sticks to facts. We have all been
TOO meek and gentle with these
butchers-and now we have the beef
trust on our hands. Truly, Shakes
p2are wrote for all times!
% Thou art the ruins of the nob!cst
man
That ever lived in the tide of times.
Woe to the hand that shed this cost
ly blood''
Mote that ] left out a cog in my
voice, and pull II up an inch Caesar
had forty-eight holes in his hide,
hence 1t is ruined and unsala,ble.
What good would II do to tell Caesar
it could be patched up with court
plaster?
'Cver these wounds do | now
prophesy,
Which like dumb mouths do ope
their ruby lips
To bes the voice and utterance of
my tongue
You hear a new g,rgule In my
voice as II rises inch by inch. You
must understand each line Antony
Is prophesying. What a wonderful
outburst! "'Dumb mouths do ope
tHch IHuJ llpS' - L mere ule SO many
dumb mo'vh.s n. work over the land.
Why can't they keep their ruby lips
closed? Speech and uterance mean
the same thing, and Antony puts
both in to fll mp the line. have
found It difficult to do any speech
without uttemnce. Now jerk the
throttle another notch
"a curse shall light upon the limbs
OF men!'
He was thinking OF mosquitoes
and openwork sleeves.
Z" AN pity choked by custom OF
fell use
How true! Custom of fell use See
how the Standard evades the fine.
" And Caesars spirit, ranging for
revenge,
with Ate by his side, come hot
from hell
'Antony Is orthodox. Caesar Is ac-
cused OF having gone to hot place
Immediately after death. This is
hard rub on julius sort OF roast
and Is a meanerdlg than Brutus gave