PUBLIC SPEAKING.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 17 June 1924, Page 9

PUBLIC SPEAKING.

ADDRESS AT NEW ZEALAND CLUB. The New Zealand Club, at Auckland, tendered a luncheon to Professor J. C Neivlands, F.E.LS., Lecturer on Public Speaking at New College, Edinburgh. ~ ’ 1 The guest of the gathering said lie had intended to speak on the subject of public speaking but had been asked to speak at the Town Hall on the subject, and he had decided to s peak to the club on the elementary principles, ihere were two forms of public* speakami +u° Se /u 0m th u e sch ° ol of initiation, and the others,, those who looked upon speech as a science before it was an art. He was a believer of the science nm P fn ef f+ e . nCe to the art * The first impoi tant thing was to have something to sb\. and the next to know how to'say “L T^ mentloned Caruso’s voice as one of the greatest that the world had known; but it had been ended by the bui sting of .a blood vessel when the ° n a lligh note ’ a » d this had lesulted from an unscientific production Hem* T^ erful Voice ' The late Sir Henu living wa s another case quoted °f a . ma " w £ ose voice production was abominable. Two years before bis death + S 3s an a S O1 W because of his S? a n- HIS wol , lderful acting had car- £ ,m ov « r tlle failing. There was, said the speaker no better pubic speakl ei in Britain than Mr. Lloyd George In Ins younger days he had a fine voice but clunng the wa r his impassioned appeals had strained his throat. PostonenfientT? °/ his addres « GS were freQuent. Referring to the clergv he mentioned the fact that Spurge™ ’had been a- speaker who knew how to speak and was capable of speaking even in an atmosphere of smoke. Failure w-is caused by the use of wrong muscles, and wrongful imitations. He thought he coukl do good if he got the support he wanted, but after 25 years be had more enemies than any‘man on earth. They could train their men work up their speeches, and condense them, but it they wanted articulation they must find out the muscles concerned and how to use them. The speaker demonstrated various styles of jspeakmg in varying moods, much to tlie entertainment and enlightenment of those present. r