MARGARET ANGLIN ON HER ART.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XVII, Issue 964, 27 August 1908, Page 18

MARGARET ANGLIN ON HER ART.

The ever-vexed question as to whether an actress should, on the stage, be merely a mirror of emotions or whether she should really feel the troubles and sorrows of the character she is portraying, was submitted to Margaret Anglin the other day by an interviewer. Her view of the case is a modern one, for she believes in associating herself so thoroughly with the part she is playing, that she forgets her own personality entirely and lives and moves and speaks as the

woman she is representing. In other words she must lose herself completely in the part, otherwise there will be an air of superficiality, unconvincing and artificial about her work which will keep her from making the strong appeal to the audience which she sets out to do.