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ELLEN TERRY'S STAGE FRIGHT.

According to Ellen Terry, in Iter reminiscences now appearing in "McClurc's Magazine," stage. fright is lik-j nothing else iu tho world. ' You are standing on the stage, apparently quite well, and 111 your right mind, when you suddenly feel as if your tongue had been dislocated and was lying powerless in your mouth. Cold shivers: begin to creeo downward from tho naue of your- iicclv and all up you at the same time, unti 1 tliey seem to meet in the small of your back. About this time you fed as if a centipede, all of whose feet have been carefully icod, has begun to run about in the roots of your hair. The next agreeable sensation is the breaking out of a cold sweat all oviv. Then you are certain that some one has cut the muscles at the back of your knees. Your mouth begins to open slowly, without giving utterance to a single sound, and your eyes seem inclined to jump out of your head ever the footlights. At this point i; is well to get off the stage as quickly us you can, for you aro far beyond human I.tip. In later years I have not suffered from the fearsome malady, hut, even now, after 50 years , ? stage life, I never play a new part without being overcome by a terrible nervousness and torturing dread cJ forgetting my lines. Every nerve in my bedy seems to bo d-jneing an independent jig on its own account."

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Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 61, 12 November 1907, Page 4

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ELLEN TERRY'S STAGE FRIGHT. Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 61, 12 November 1907, Page 4

ELLEN TERRY'S STAGE FRIGHT. Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 61, 12 November 1907, Page 4

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