BEYOND HUMAN HELP
ATTACKS OF STAGE FRIGHT “Stage fright is like nothing else in the world,” said the late Dame Ellen Terry, in her memoirs. “You are standing on the stage apparently quite well and in your right mind, when suddenly you feel as if your tongue had been dislocated and was lying powerless in your mouth. “Cold shivers begin to creep down from the nape of your neck and all up you at the same time, until they seem to meet in the small of your back. About this time you feel as if a centipede, all of whose feet had been carefully iced, has begun to run about in the roots of your hair. The next agreeable sensation is the break-out ofa cold sweat all oyer. “Then you are certain that someone has cut the muscles at the back of your knees. Your mouth begins to open slowly, without giving utterance to a 1 single sound, and your eyes seem inclined to jump out of your head over tlie footlights. At this point it is Us well to get off'the stage as quickly as you can, for you are beyond all human help.” " j-'-
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 19 August 1933, Page 3
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