VOICE CULTURE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 142, 18 May 1936, Page 2

VOICE CULTURE.

In the year 1916 a German professor of singing escaped from Germany and got to America, where ho opened a school of music in Chicago. This professor had made an intensive study of the physiology of the vocal system, m Germany, and evolved an improved method of voice culture based on the Italian “Bel Canto" style. He lias had prcnomcnal success in America, and v\o sec and hear results of his method in Jeannette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy, Grace Mobrc, Alartini and now Gladys Swarthout, who is at tho Regent 'Theatre this week. Some thirteen years ago Air J. Garde Grimshaw heal’d of this remarkable method, and made an intensive study of it for two years, and then scrapped his old methods of teaching and adopted tho new method, which has resulted in his students gaining eight championships and nearly ninety first prizes. The scientific way in which voices can be developed under this system is such that no normally healthy person need despair of having a voice if they are willing jo carry out tho necessary foundation exorcises, and Mr Garde Grimshaf has had some splendid successes in building up voices from pratically no voice at all. Ill’s motto i s; —“The Essence f Perfect Art” is “The Essence of Perfect Ease.”