ON “NERVES.”
“The Duchess of York lias no ‘right’ to find the .strain of greeting thousands of bores, hut she does feel it, and you or f who lightly hear about her ordeal would go raving mad if we load to endure it. The first performance of a new ploy is a great strain on the nerves of tile players who are unusually sensitive people, and any extraneous excitement may wreck them. An audience can give power to the players; it can also take power away 'from them; and a single interruption, especially an unmannerly one, may mb them of their words. 1 have seen players who were word-perfect fumbling for their lives during a rehearsal because the producer had lost lii.s temper over some trifle and had roared at them as if the Mississippi had poured itself down his hack. It is very silly of racehorses to he restless and uneasy at the startingpost! Think how calm and collected cab-lmrsc.s are I. . —Mr St. John Ervino in the “Observer.” *
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Hokitika Guardian, 2 August 1927, Page 3
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170ON “NERVES.” Hokitika Guardian, 2 August 1927, Page 3
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