ry and with an In short the was only a special out of discord Dovel is stronger matization of the good play are not ration shortly be turned in ANNA & CURRY EqEXPRESSION OFFICIAL ORGAN Vol. XVI. No. 2. SEPTEMBER, 1909 Issued Quarterly by the School of Expression. Office: Third Floor Entered at the Post Office, Boston, Mass., as Second Class matter. Act of July 16, 1894 Ο to pass without assuring you of the pleasure it has given Miss Terry and myself to be associated with so excellent an institution as the School of Expression. It seems to me the danger in teaching elocution, although I do not claim to be an authority, is that some formal and artificial method should supersede nature. But in this school you seek to avoid that danger by the recognition of the principle that all good speaking comes from the right action of the mind. For the same reason, good acting is not declamation, but the expression of character; and the actor's aim is not to imitate this style or that, but to cultivate his own resources of impersonation. I cannot but thank you, for Miss Terry and myself, with all my heart, for the attention you have given our reading, and I sincerely hope that some substantial benefit to this excellent institution will be the result. SIR HENRY IRVING, SIR HENRY IRVING. First Contributor to the Endowment Funds. Address at the Reading given for the School, 1888. DEAR MR. CURRY, Please convey to the students and teachers of the School of Expression my most cordial acknowledgments of their very beautiful gift. It needed no such token to make an enduring impression on my mind of the occasion which brought us together; but I shall always prize this souvenir very highly amongst the treasures which remind me of America. If I have done any service to the School, it is because we have a common aim, and because we are comrades in a great art. There is so much to learn and so much to do, that after all, there is no great distinction between master and pupil. Let me be remembered amongst you as one who is striving towards the same ideal, and who is glad to welcome by word and deed his fellowstudents on the way. Believe me, very faithfully yours, |