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THE MORNING ASTOU IAN. ASTORIA, OREGON.
SUNDAY, MARCH 23, 190.
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grot Pece memorial in South Africa
statues of Queen Victoria, of King
Edward and the new statue of Queen
Alexandra for the unveiling of which
ke is returning to England, New
York has lent a respectful ear to his
utterances, particularly because of the
lact that it is hoped he may return
to establish himself in this country
ext autumn. Consequently Father
Knickerbocker who has always been
known as a money maker than as an
art producer, is hoping to balance the
scale more evenly, while local artists
organizations give promise of an
early and concentrated movement to
establish the long talked of but not
yet achieved school of real American
art
' New York's famous state prison at
Sing Sing, through its official bead
the warden, indignantly denies that it
has been stealing water. The impu
tation that it would steal anything
arouses the righteous wrath of the
famous institution which has housed
wiore celebrated obstractors of other
people's property than any other
academy of crime in the country. The
story which brought out the denial
was that a secret pipe led from the
Groton reservoir from which the
city's water supply is drawn to the
prison and that its inmates were en
joying the luxury of free water which
costs the metropolis itself millions of
dollars a year. Even the hardiest
muck raker has not heretofore dared
to accuse a state prison of stealing.
FACIAL EXPRESSION
In his essay on Adrienne Le Couv
reur, Sainte Beuve declares that act
ress finest excellence to have been
not her elocution, her eloquence, her
temperament, nor any of the hundred
and one other attributes that go to
make up effective acting, but her
skill in mute acting.
"No one ever so perfectly under
stood the art of mute acting the art
of listening perfectly and yet acting
with one's whole person while another
character is speaking. Thus, full of
soul and of feeling, an untiring stu
dent, passionately in love with her
art everything contributed to make
her the great reproducer of the subt
lest and finest of human emotions
and this to a degree unsurpassed in
her own day."
It was by posture, by gesture, by
facial expression , particularly, that
Adrienne Le Couvreur she who first
made queens in the flesh of Shakes
peare's queens in poetry attained
the stature of an artiste in the affec
tions of a people who had only known
actresses.
Mute acting, the possibilities of
facial expression (always this side of
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that invisible line that divides the
crimace from the look of eloquence,
pathos from bathos, sentiment form
sentimentality) is an instruction of
iU art forirotten bv the actor who
complains that he is cast insignifi
cantly, as it is the glory of the actor
who suddenly lifts a small part into
a fine orominence. Nature may aid
much in equipping an actor with a
fine facial exoression. Nature may
give the actor the one talent a strik
ing countenance. It is for the actor
to multiply the gilt by practice ana
by hard work until it becomes the ten
talents of a finished art.
Of livinor actresses, the counten
ance of Marie Doro is a most strik
ing instance to the extent that an
actress may improve upon-Nature,
and, through effort, obtain a wide
range and an exact power of facial
expression. , "
These illustrations, expressive of
amotions induced by lines taken at
random from the play, "The Morals
of Marcus", exhibit a range oi taciai
play as varied and exact as it is rare.
Partly in play, partly in earnestness,
Miss Doro has developed to the full
the actor's most effective medium of
interpretation facial expression. The
result is evident. The means of ob
taining it worthy of record.
It was as a member of the "Little
Mary" company that Miss Doro,
availing herself of waits between acts,
or during the scenes of other players,
got her best practice. In fun, as she
thought, she vied with another girl
actress at making faces, as two chil
dren might do. Night after night she
practised at this, amusing her friend,
and being amused, until it came to
her, unawares, that she could almost
do what she wished with her count
enance. This she realized one night
on actually frightening her friend
with a look of terror. Froni that on,
Miss Doro has given time and pains
to the furtherance of this power.
Her methods are these two ti
memorize a story, preferably one
built of several contrasting ideas
reflect upon it, and then tell it entire
ly by facial pantomime to some one
who has never heard it. It is diffi
cult. In a majority of cases, as a
nieans of telling the story, it is un
successful. But the mere attempt is
splendid mental exercise and the fin
est kind of practice for obtaining a
sure muscular control of the face.
Her second device of especial help
to Miss Doro in acquiring elasticity
about the mouth, is the mastery and
pronunciation of certain sentences in
Italian, French and Spanish. Care
ful utterance of even random phases,
taken from any of the romance lan
guages, which, when well spoken, are
articulated and enunciated with a
nicety unknown to the1 Anglo-Saxon
speech, cannot be too strongly com
mended to every actor and actress to
whom correct speech and a skilful
management of the countenance are
as important as the very breath of
life.
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