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------------------------------------------------------------------------
Recommended examples of good practice ;
------------------------------------------------------------------------ THE HYPNOTIST
------------------------------------------------------------------------ RHETORICThe Arte of Rhetorick, Thomas Walton, titlepage, a classic handbook. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ELDERS AND BETTERS advert for BOHN Aluminium and Brass 20 x 24 May 1953 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ COMMENTATOR ABOVE Byrum Saam - Atlantic's Ace Announcer in the commentary box with his two professional spotters
------------------------------------------------------------------------ THE RUMOUR
left, Taber's cartoon of idle chatter c1960 (US) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ THE MUSICAL PERFORMER How do we
represent the performer ? TOP ROW 01 a characteristic
pose for the singing of Country and Western Music. c1958 Dress - campy
Pose - artificial Expression - dum but laughing Facial muscles - tense
for high pitched whine. The tilt of the pelvis suggests he is proud of
his guitar or about to fart. 02 Edward Wadsworth, one of the British Vorticist group, an etching of a singer performing (with similar pretensions) c1923. 03 a singer and his accompanist from Karl Storck's collection of caricatures and satires after Music and Musicians c1910 04 a description of Frankie Laine 1958
BOTTOM ROW left - from
George Bickham's Musical Entertainer London 1736 - 1740.
right James
Hook, A Complete Book of Instruction for Beginners on the Harpsichord,
London c1800
------------------------------------------------------------------------ THEATRICAL PERFORMANCE How do
we represent the performer ? The Japanese Dimension.
01 Savonarola preaching, from COMPENDIO DI REVELAZIONE , Morgiani and Petri, Florence 1495 one of five woodcuts called the Triumphs of Savonarola, Among the congregation are distinct signs of turbulence - Savonarola's sermons were calculated to turn even the hardest of the hard (Michaelangelo say) to jelly at the thought of the coming Judgment of mankind. It was long believed that Botticelli had designed these woodcuts. There seems little pictorial evidence in support.
04 The image of the penitent at Confession, from T.F.Dibdin's A Bibliograpical, Antiquarian and Picturesque
Tour in France and Germany, Bulmer,
for the author, London 1821- 3.
------------------------------------------------------------------------ ORATORY Makers
of Speeches above H.M.Bateman's cartoon for the British magazine The Tatler, c 1925, captioned "A Little Disinfectant", rather summing up the standard of political comment among British cartoonists between the wars.
01 Martin
Lewis The Orator - Madison Square , etching, 25 x 33cms
02 Punch February 24th 1909 p.128 18 x 25cms. There was a particular fear of the power of the amplified speaker in the early years of this century, just before the electrical amplification of the voice. Here a rather leaden drawing of a tale obviously told, by Bernard Partridge. 03 C.R.W.Nevinson,
The Workers (Strike Demonstration) lithograph 1919,
17 x 25cms. Nevinson himself had a stony dislike of anything that smacked
of Democracy and a Mass Movement. The sepulchral building behind the
speakers is ominous and was meant to be."Nevinson is radically anti-democratic,
'What,' he asks,' has anybody yet succeeded in teaching a mob ? A mob
will always be somebody's tool Better a thousand times that it should
be the tool of the hereditory and futile aristocrat than that of the tedious
and inane professional agitator. The great majority of mankind will inevitably
and invariably be fools ..." K.Hare, London's Latin Quarter 1926
of the painter C.R.W.Nevinson. 05 One of
the Cuckoos listed by Baden Powell liable to distort a young man's directions
in life, from Rovering to Success , Herbert Jenkins,
London undated , my edition inscribed 1929. In the Market...."such
was the power of the tub thumper that I only escaped by the skin of my
teeth" and in the Political Arena..."the good, loud voiced
political orator... with the gift of the gab he will bag at one go a
whole crowd of open-mouthed wandering lads..." "They
fall like ripe plums to his shake and start forthwith to learn either
The Red Flag or By Jingo if we do .., according as he is preaching red-hot
communism or aggressive imperialism. He hypnotises the whole herd. But
he cannot mesmerise the individual fellow who doesn't mean to be carried
away by the rest." p.137 06 One of the many handbooks available in the first fifteen years of the century advising the politician, the after-dinner speaker and the rabble rouser how to make more effective use of the voice and the brain in making speeches.
PEDAGOGY .... AND RECITATION
Joseph Lancaster, The British System of Education, pamphlet 1810.
BOTTOM ROW from
B.H.Smart, The Practice of Elocution , London 1832 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
Gluyas Williams, Raconteurs c1938 |
