Part 13 (1/2)

However, in the tragic parts, our increased I learned to portray transitions for the sake of fusing the different contrasts; a capital but difficult study of detail, tedious at tireatest importance The la passions are at play, are like those which in painting are called ”chiaro-oscuro,” a blending of the tones, which thus portrays truth devoid of artifice

In order to succeed in this intent, it is necessary to take as ifted with a well-tempered and artistic nature And these are not to be confined to sterile i the rich material of dramatic erudition, so that one inal and artistic individuality

Some people think that distinction of birth and a perfect education will render thee with the same facility and nonchalance hich one enters a ball-roo upon the boards, presu that they can do it as well as an actor who has been raised upon thereatest difficulties that theyto the slight inclination in con struction, easily causes the feet to totter, particularly if one is a beginner, and especially at the entrances and exits I h I had dedicated myself to the art froreatest care every day of e of fifteen my movements had not yet acquired all the ease and naturalness necessary to e, and certain sudden turns always frightened an reat i an actor At that time the audience was critical and severe

In our days, the sa, less critical, and does not ai to my opinion, the old systeence and solely by considering the good qualities, without correcting the bad ones, that real artists are made

It is also my conviction that a person ishes to dedicate hireat iic The interpretation becoinner and ement over the difficulties that he meets; secondly, an excessive vanity caused by the appreciation hich the public apparently honours him Both these sentilect his study On the other hand, by taking several parts, he beco his part natural, thus convincing hi correctly characters of little iiven more important ones later on Thus it will come about that his study will be reatest of the living examples of the school of realisnor Tommaso Salvini, houes and the honours of the profession which I also shared with Ernesto Rossi The former was and is still ad of the conventional, but owe their power to that spontaneity which is therevelation of art The wealth of plasticity which Salvini possesses, is in hiift

Salvini is the true exponent of the Italian dramatic art

APPEARS AS LADY MACBETH

In the an to rerehearse ”Macbeth,” at Covent Garden, London, It had been arranged for our company by Mr

Clarke, and translated into most beautiful Italian verse by Giulio Carcano The renowned Mr Harris put it on the stage according to English traditions The representation of the part of Lady Macbeth, which afterward becareatly, as I knew only too hat kind of comparisons would be made The reiven by the famous Mrs Siddons and the traditional criticisht have rendered the public very severe and difficult to please

I used all my ability of interpretation to reveal and translish audience it seereat character of Lady Macbeth, in a way that surpassed all expectations

We had to repeat the dra a most profound impression upon thescene So thoroughly had I entered into the nature of Lady Macbeth, that during the entire sceneme to shed tears To this enforced iht

Froive of this diabolical character [at the close of her Memoirs] the reader can form for himself an idea of how much its interpretation costscene), in ht intonation of the voice and the true expression of the physiognoood health never abandoned h unfortunately I never was able to accustoes I acquired a marvellous store of endurance That sort of life infused in h every kind of hardshi+p with the resolution and authority of a coeneral All obeyedtoalways ready, as I was, either to blaations, also to praise without any distinction of class those who deserved it I al the actors under my direction, and if any one of them dared to trouble our harmony, he was instantly put to his proper place by the firement of the plays was left to me in all its details Every order and every disposition cae and ss that every actor understands contribute toe of a private er