READING ALOUD.

Ohinemuri Gazette, Volume XXIX, Issue 3956, 12 August 1918, Page 4

READING ALOUD.

There are plenty of people who read •loud on every possible and impossible occasion, but only a very few who excel in this most difficult art. It is an art- ; however, well worth cultivating.

' What are tho factors that conititute good reading aloud? We must possesses a voice that is full of infinite variety, a voice that is incapable of dulness. ' If we have the good for tune tp\ possess histrionic ability, the foice will be able to reproduce humour •r pathos, to suggest the weird or the exquisitely beautiful, without the leasl jrffort. There must be no straining •fter effect. If our. reading is to be successful, then we must read aloud from a book that we have studied over •nd over again. We must know what'? coming, and exhaust every shade af toeaning- in the author's mind. In the Victorian era we were familiar with penny readings.- The price was . modest because the performance was generally good. A really good reader ifeserves, but will never grot., the salary of a music hall artiste, and the husband and wife who can real aloud well taring the winter evenings will prevent many a wearisome argument in no way toonnecftad with literature.