Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 January 1915 — Acting and Singing. [ARTICLE]

Acting and Singing.

Another question relative to studying a role is: “Is there any difference between studying characters for acting and for singing?” Here again I must quote myself. I need the music to inspire me. Many persons have told me that if I would leave the operatic stage for the drama I would be the greatest actress the world has ever seen. I don’t believe it. I dqn’t think all of this could be brought out of me Without the music, because it is the music which does bring it out. The .case of “Salome” is quite in point here. I went first to see it acted without any music, because I thought it would be interesting to act it, if I never sang it. It was just a commonplace drama, that’s all;'but when Strauss put the music to it it became strong, ttense, magnificent—in brief, a new thing! Nor was I the only one affected that way by the change. In Paris, where it was,created, everyone said, when Strauss had put music to the drama: “The hand has found its glove.”—Mary Garden in the American Magazine.