A DIFFICULT JOB
TEACHING THE “STARS.” One of the most interesting, and perhaps most difficult, jobs in London is held by Miss Flossie Freedman. She is called the Fairy Godmother of every foreign stage “star” who wor’ in England. She is a teacher of anguages. and nearly every theatrical producer in the country sends his foreign “stars” to her to be schooled. “I am an actress as well as a language teacher,” she says. “I have tc be. I have to act any parts for which my clients are engaged, sc that they may learn the exact intonation required. I have to stamp and rave and weep and make love, and then listen to my pupil stamping and raving and weeping and making love —in English.” Besides foreigners, Miss Freedman has taught North Country M.P’s. how to modify their accents, and has had many American pupils who wish to correct a crude nasal twang.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19682, 27 December 1933, Page 10
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