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AMATEUR ACTING

WORDS TO THE BEGINNER

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THE mouth is also an important; factor in expressing character. By good make-up and a little practice in front of a mirror, you can entirely aller the shape of your mouth, and go a long way towards altering the shape of your whole faen.

A loosely held mouth lá always a good way of portraying A kiighly weak or Ineffective person, and wide open one in an obvious charac- teristic of toplicity or doliishness,

Aggressiveness can be well express- ed by a prominent lower lip, and asceticism er meanness by Ughtly. drawn lips. 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 character, keep your mouth shut when not talking. It looks better, and most theatres or falls are "elly dusty places.

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER.

SPARE MOMENT PAGE

Doctors of the

future

tune-in

O-DAY radio enter-

tains. To-morrow it may eure discage.

That, briefly, embraces the tremendous possibilities of recent experiments in diathermy.

These experidients began in Ger- many. An obscure professor, after Ave years of trial and error, stumbled on the secret.

Employing ад ultra short wave high fre- trans- quency 120,000,000 mitter, giving out oscil-

Intions per second, he discovered that germs absorb these currents at certain

will

to your wavelength

Radio

may soon

give

you

mensurable frequencies. Thus every Immediately he will know germ group had a wavelength of its own.

Almost immediately angther re- markable fact emerged. People in perfect health also possessed measur able wavelengths. Moreover,

fell 11: they

their wavelengths

27, 1936.

for private treatment in the whole world.

Where before tonsila were removed by the surgeon'a kalfe they can now be dealt with by diathermy. A short arm with n metal bulb at the end Introduced and the tonsils are elec- trically dispersed. No absence from work, no

hemorrhage, no sensation of

a ploughed field for a throat, Just Ave

or six painless treatments and your tonsils have vanished.

That is one of the many marvels diathermy performs. Perhaps it is even an elementary onc. Experi- ments go on and bring astonishing results.

Ono test was made with, a mouse and an instrument transmiting on six metres. The mouse was in a specially prepared box nibbling checie. Pads from the transmitter were adjusted to the box and the Instrument was tuned.

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lengths corresponds to a germ group, she was given half an hour's treat- brain of the mouse had been shatter- NEW YORK SERVICE tace, Anxtely, fur Instance,

That germ 1s

group again relates: to ment. The pain vanished. certain illnesses. produced by drawing your brawn to-

For a week she was treated daily, be drawn. Every organism has

There was only one conclusion to gether, moving your eyes restlessly

Trial instrumenta of this kind have already been constructed. At the Then we weekly. She began to natural frequency of its own. and pulling in a few nervous glances

sleep well and moment they are Imperfect. over the shoulders. The restless eyes

eat normally. A month later her treatment finished. same frequency It will destroy that you apply sufficient current of the can be appiled to the expressl 101 changed, To what? To that of the every month they improve.

Now, twelve months afterwards, there organism, has been no recurrence of pain. germ with which they were infected. Relief from pain

The next siep was clear, If or- The word diathermy has a some- Canisms can be destroyed in this way, DADIO waves will not only what complex meaning. An expert wily not germa?

diagnose disease. They describes it as "through-henting, or

feur, also in this case, though the усл Bre much wider opened the mouth is loose-perhaps trembling a little.

Fiercely. Glowing

Anger, tow bringi n frown; the teeth are lightly clenched, and the eyes have a feree glow. If

you watch no angry person's mouth, you

In this country and abroad experts

are now busy determining the exact

wavelengths of the more troublesome

will see that he often bites the lower|Germ indicator Elp, and closes his mouth sa lightly that it looks like a straight line.

Terror causes prople to lase control of their facial muscles, and one effect of thin la à trembling lower lip. This can be added to by drawing the band 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 entleipute your re- action lo another actor's speech; never turn in answer to a cait until you have heard it. If you have to make a gesture connected with some ward, be careful not to start the movement until you have spoken the word. A grval dent of cure is needed in thin respect, for it is irritating to ace an actor beginning to look delighted at a plece of good news before he has heard ill

The art of mime is quite distinct from that of acting, aliough the two have a great deal in common. Books on mime can be very useful as aids to better facial expression and gesture. Conveying emotions and the meaning of words without speaking is so dif- ficult that when the technique Is applied to ordinary verbal arling, an tifcel of real artistry can be achieved. Bad Listeners

Many actors have the habit of listening badly, During another actor'a speech, one often sees some- one, on the stage looking na if he lo speculating on the chances of catching hip train at the end of the show. Maybe he is, but he shouldn't show it. If someone is talking to you on the stage, you must not stand" stiffly, without expression, until your cue comes.

Throughout every speech you must reflect your reaction to the words, whelber you are speaking them your- self or listening to another person. liere 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.

But

germs. These will then be plotted on will alleviate pain and cure illness. the physical effect of passing a special Destroying disease graphs. Specially selected trans- The latest ultra-short-wave dia- kind of electric current through the EXPERIMENTS continue. It

In thremic machine has been used for body. This current mitters wil, carry the graphs

generates beat

is probable that the next precisely the same way that stations treating a wide variety of complaints, along its path, su that when it few years will give us power deli- Neuritis and lumbago, rheumatic traverses the body not only the skin berately to destroy disease germs by nre plotted on radio sels,

arthritis, bronchial asthma, sciatica, but the underlying parts are heated, incans of ultra-short-wave transmit- and empyema all respond well.

The tissues are

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

Certain sections of inedical opinion DIAGNOSIS will be simplif- times surprised at the results they surface. By this method the still hold diathermy suspect. That is

ed for the doctor. He will get.

heat is actually generated in the the fale of any fresh move In One day woman was brought tissues along the path of the current." specialised fields. But these no longer discreetly pump his pallent and rely on vague answers. He will to diathermic expert in despair,

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

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

This treatment has proved its dicator on the gerin scale until he has Heavily insulated pads were ad-

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12 The horseman who blushed at

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Your face must always be alive and never fell into an expressionless re- 10 Why should nurse, be so set on post. You can appear to be quite all and restful without withdrawing from the scene, and it is of great im2 porlunce in acting technique to be able to do so. Nobody's mind ever becomes a complete blank as long as ho is consclous, and when you are not speaking, your face must reflect what is going on Inside your charne- ter's mind.

Pitfalls in Gesture

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

17 This English city is, seeming

in the van-hot the cart.

18 Offering of wise men.

20 Just an error on Gaston's part

(two words, 4, 3).

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Gesture is a great stumbling-block the beginner in acting. Caught between two flres, he does not know whether he is using too much gesture, qr too little., In Becking 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 looking wooden, and he will be reminded of Hamlet's advice to the 30 As hot na hell. Playera: "Nor do not saw the air too 31 Same dance only different. much with your hand. tween the two, the beginner usually makes a pretty bad job of his gesture. The first point about gesture Is to use it with restraint. I you move your hands and arms vigorously while you are talking, the audience will be too much distracted by your Acrobatice to listen to what you are anging. Therefore, unless tize play dictates it, do not use gesture while you are speaking words important to the plot.

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14 In a jungle school this poor 'animal could never avoid hav- ing black marks.

13 They made their bows with

elegance.

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pictures.

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The hands and arms must be used casily and without awkwardness. Gesture brings into operation the Angers, wrists, arms, and shoulders. All must be well under control, and hand alternately in a clockwise and In its right place, a burich since they are not all normally used anti-clockwise direction, widening the bananas le quite a pleasant sight, but to a great extent, they must be exer- circles ba the joints become more that place is not at the end of an Elsed.

dexible. For the arms and shoulders, actor's arm! Hold your fingers loose- the Typing or plano-playing' give flexi- ordinary physical training exercises ly and slightly poparated, with bility to the fingers: in the phence et in ifting and towering, together with thumb close to the index finger (not either, they can be exercised by some vigorous swinging movements, curled up in the palm.) When mak- almoly drumming fatters në ʼn table will have the desired effect. This ing a sweeping gesture which requires or on your knoe, increasing the speed matter of exercise should be closely an open hond, the thumb should be the time. The wrists can be studied, and many other excellent, held well away from the first Anger. exercised by holding the forearm so methods exist which can be discover-] Next articles. lern Plays; Tim- that it cannot move and waving the ́ed by reading books on acting, fing; Inspiration; e-up.

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