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AMATEUR ACTING

WORDS TO THE BEGINNER

THE

Fifth Article

WIE mouth to also on Important factor in expressing character. By good make-up and a little practice In front of a mirror, you can entirely alter the shape of your mouth, and go a long way towards altering the shape of your whole face.

A loosely held mouth is always a good way of portraying a slightly weak or Ineffective person, and wide open one lɛ an obvious charac- teristic of simpljelty or dolfishness,

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THE HONGKONG

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SPARE MOMENT PAGE

Doctors of the future will tune-in to your

your wavelength

O-DAY, radio enter- tains. To-morrow it may cure disease.

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That, briefly, embraces tromendous possibilities of recent experiments in diathermy.

Aggressiveness can be well express-¡' These experiments began in Ger- ed by a prominent lower lip, and I minny. An obscure professor, after ascoticiam or meanness by tightly- drawn pe. All these effects can, like those of the eyes, be Intensified by careful make-up.

You may want to produce a senile mouth by taking a few teeth out. This is done by "blacking out" and will be dealt with in the section on make-up. Unless it is part of your charneler, keep your mouth shut when nol talking. It looks better, and most theatres or balls are pretty dusty places.

The various suades of human eine tion can be quite easily shown in the face, Anxiety, for instance, is re- produced. by drawing your brows to- gether, moving your eyes restlessly and putting in a few nervous glances over the shoulders. The restless eyes can be appiled to the expression of fear also; in l. case, though, the eyes are much wider opened' 'the mouth is loose-perhaps trembling a little,

Fiercely Glouring

Anger, too, brings a frown; the treh are thtly clenched, and the cyc have b fierce glow. It you watch an angry person's mouth, you will see that he often bites the lower Jip, and closes his mouth so tightly tint it looks like a atraight line,

Terror causes people to lote control of their facial muscles, and one effect of this is a trembling lower in This can be added to by drawing the hand downwards over the mouth, pulling the lower lip with it, but don't over- do this or it becomes rather ugly.

Facial expression, gesture, and speech are all Intimately connected. You must never anticipate your re-i action to another actor's speech; never turn in answer to a call until you have heard it. If you have to make a gesture connected with some word, be careful not to start the movement until you have spoken the word, great deal of care needed in this respect, for It is irritating are an actor beginning to look delighted 1 pirer of no newn before he has heard itf

The art of mine in quite distinct from that of neting, although tho. two have a great deal in common. Books on mime can be very useful as alds to belter facial expression and gesture. Conveying emotions and the meaning, of words without speaking is so dif- Acult that when the technique is applied to ordinary verbal acting, an effect of real artistry can be nehieved,

Bad Listeners

Many actors have the habit of Histening badly. During another netor's speech, one often sees some- one on the stage Ibaking as if he is peculating on the chances of catching his trala

at the end of the show. Maybe he in, but he shouldn't show It. If someone is talking to you an the stage, you must not stand stiffly, without expression, until your cue

comes.

Throughout every speech you must reflect your reaction to the words, whether you are speaking them your- self or listening to another person. Here again you must beware of anti- cipation. You know what is coming next, but you must not give the audience the impression that you do.

Your face must always be alive and never fall into an expressionless re- pose. You can appear to be quite still and restful without withdrawing from the scene, and it is of great im- porlunce In acling technique to be able to do so. Nobody's mind ever becomes a completo blank as long as he to conscious, and when you are not speaking, your face must reflect what is going on inside your charac- ter's mind.

Pitfalls in Gesture

Gesture is a great stumbling-block.

five years of trial and error, stumbled

on the secret.

Employing

in

ultra short wave high fre- trans- quency mitter, lving out 120,000,000 esell-

lations per second, he discovered that

germs absorb these

currents at cerinin

mensurable frequencies.

Radio

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give

Thus every

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for private treatment in the whole world.

Where before tonsils were removed by the surgeon's knife they can now be dealt with by diathermy. A short arm with a metal bulb at the end is Introduced and the tonsils are elec trically dispersed. No absence from work, no hemorrhage, no sensation of

a. ploughed held for n throat. Just

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Ave or six painless treatments and your tonsils have vanished.

That is one of the many marvels diathermy performs. Perhaps it is evon an elementary one. Exper]- ments Ro on and bring astonishing results.

One test was made with a mouse and an Instrument transmitting on six metron, The mouse was In a specinily prepared box nibbling cheese. Pads from the transmitter were adjusted to the box and the Instrument was tuned,

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There was only one conclusion to For a week she was treated daily. be drawn. Every organism has a Trial lestruments of this kind have Then twice weekly. She began perfect health also possessed measure already been. constructed. able wavelengths. Moreover, when moment

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month later her treatment Anished. changed. To what? To that of the every month they improve.

Now, twelve months afterwards, there same frequency. It will destroy that germ with which they were infected. Relief from pain

organism. has been no recurrence of pain.

The next step was clear. I or- In this country and abroad experts hrr now busy determining the exact

The word diathermy has a some- stonians can be destroyed in this way, RA ADIO wares will not only what complex meaning.

An expert why not germs? wavelengths of the more troublesome

They describes it as "through-heating, or Destroying discase kerms, These will then be plotted on will alleviate pain and cure tinesa. the physical effect of passing a special Kraphs. Specially selected trans- The latest ultra-short-wave dia kind of electric current through the mitters will carry the graphs In thermic machine has been used for body. This, current

EXPERIMENTS continue. generales hent precisely the same way that stations treating a wide variety of complaints, along its

Is probable that the next path, so that when it few years will give us power deli- are pistted on radio seta.

and lumbago, rheumatle traverses the body not only the skin herately to destroy disease germs by arthritis, bronchial asthma, seintica, but the underlying parts are heated., means of ultra-short-wave transmit- Germ indicator

and empyema all respond well,

The tissues are therefore heated ters, The experts themselves are some- throughout, and not merely on the

Certain sertions of medical opinion ed for the doctor. He will get.

heat is actually generated in the the fate of any fresh move 10 no longer discreetly pump his patient

brought tissues along the path of the current." specialised fields. But these and rely on vague answers. He will to a diathermle expert in despair.

picions seldom check development connect his patient to the high fre- She suffered from acute arthritis of Tonsil treatment.

where development is justified. quency transmitter and adjust the in- the arm and shoulder.

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deator on the germ scale until he has Heavily insulated pads were ad- found the correct wavelength,

Justed from a diatherinic machine to

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last.

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10 The calamity that results when the old are included in a cor- tain test.

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18 Offering of wise men.

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to the beginner in acting. Caught between two dres, he does not know whether he is using too much gesture or too little. In seeking advice, he will be conscious of the same conflict of opinions. He will be told to put in plenty of movement in order to avold looting wooden, and he will be reminded of Homlot's advice to the 30 As hot as hell. Players: "Nor do not saw the air too 31 Same dance only different. much with your hand. . ...'

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DOWN tween the two, the beginner usually makes a pretty bad job of his gesture. The first point about gesture is to tise it with restraint. you move your hands and arms vigorously while you are talking, the audience will be too much distracted by your acrobatics to listen to what you are saying. Therefore, unleas the play dictates it, do not use gesture while you are speaking words important to the plot.

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