CONTENTS
Grenville Kleiser
INTRODUCTORY
v
PART I—HOW TO HOLD AN AUDIENCE
The Voice
4
The Breath
6
Modulation
8
Pausing
10
Feeling and Energy
11
Gesture and Action
12
Impersonation
13
Articulation and Pronunciation
13
Imagination
14
How to Memorize a Selection
16
Before the Audience
18
PART II—HUMOROUS HITS
The Train-misser
James Whitcomb Riley
23
The Elocutionist's Curfew
W. D. Nesbit
24
Melpomenus Jones
Stephen Leacock
25
Her Fifteen Minutes
Tom Masson
28
The Foxes' Tails
Anonymous
29
The Dead Kitten
"
33
The Weather Fiend
"
34
The Race Question
Paul Laurence Dunbar
35
When the Woodbine Turns Red
Anonymous
38
Cupid's Casuistry
W. J. Lampton
39
When Mah Lady Yawns
Charles T. Grilley
39
Watchin' the Sparkin'
Fred Emerson Brooks
40
The Way of a Woman
Byron W. King
42
The Yacht Club Speech
Anonymous
43
Mammy's Li'l' Boy
H. S. Edwards
44
Corydon
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
47
Gib Him One ub Mine
Daniel Webster Davis
49
A Lesson with the Fan
Anonymous
50
The Undertow
Carrie Blake Morgan
51
Marketing
Anonymous
52
A Spring Idyl on "Grass"
Nixon Waterman
52
Introducin' the Speecher
Edwin L. Barker
54
Counting One Hundred
James M. Bailey
57
They Never Quarreled
Anonymous
58
Song of the "L"
Grenville Kleiser
Lariat Bill
"
192
The Candidate
Bill Nye
193
One Afternoon
Anonymous
196
Not In It
"
198
A Twilight Idyl
Robert J. Burdette
199
Lavery's Hens
Anonymous
201
Lisp
"
202
They Met by Chance
"
203
The Bridegroom's Toast
"
203
Rehearsing for Private Theatricals
Stanley Huntley
204
The V-a-s-e
James Jeffrey Roche
206
Papa and the Boy
J. L. Harbour
208
The Obstructive Hat in the Pit
F. Anstey
210
Hullo
S. W. Foss
213
The Dutchman's Telephone
Anonymous
214
Doctor Marigold
Charles Dickens
216
The Ruling Passion
William H. Siviter
219
The Dutchman's Serenade
Anonymous
220
Widow Malone
Charles Lever
222
His Leg Shot Off
Anonymous
224
The Stuttering Umpire
The Khan
225
The Man Who Will Make a Speech
Anonymous
227
Carlotta Mia
T. A. Daly
228
The Vassar Girl
Wallace Irwin
229
A Short Sermon
Anonymous
231
A Lancashire Dialectic Sketch
"
232
His Blackstonian Circumlocution
"
233
Katrina Likes Me Poody Vell
"
234
At the Restaurant
"
235
A-feared of a Gal
"
237
Leaving out the Joke
"
238
The Cyclopeedy
Eugene Field
239
Echo
John G. Saxe
244
Our Railroads
Anonymous
245
Wakin' the Young 'Uns
John C. Boss
247
Pat's Reason
Anonymous
249
Quit Your Foolin'
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