. Book of the Royal blue . ■NOW THAT ONK WENT BIG. its applause, and that stage personalitygrew until it was distinctly different fromthat of anyone else upon the platform. Now the funny thing about it all isthat the public cannot diagnose its owncase. It thinks it admires art and wantsto be instructed and told new things. Itwants none of these things. What itadmires is human nature, what it wants is to be told the things it has known is all egotism. The man whocan get up on the stage or lecture plat-form and show them the best image ofthemselves, who can show them that hehas t
. Book of the Royal blue . ■NOW THAT ONK WENT BIG. its applause, and that stage personalitygrew until it was distinctly different fromthat of anyone else upon the platform. Now the funny thing about it all isthat the public cannot diagnose its owncase. It thinks it admires art and wantsto be instructed and told new things. Itwants none of these things. What itadmires is human nature, what it wants is to be told the things it has known is all egotism. The man whocan get up on the stage or lecture plat-form and show them the best image ofthemselves, who can show them that hehas thought what they have thought, feltwhat they have felt and become a sortof mouthpiece for their own every-daythoughts and emotions is to them the true. •FKAII) THAT ONK. MISSED KM. 14 ^A EXPOSE OF THE LYCEUM. artist. He is a miffhty smart man, istheir thought, because he knows the samethings we know. When I was a youth and would thinkof the lecture platform I would sadlyshake my head because I was bow-leggedand pigeon-toed. I knew I was built likea step-ladder in the last stages of St. \ itusdance, and a platform career withoutgracefulness seemed impossible to I accentuate every bit of awkward-ness I possess, and the jniblic likes it takes for art is an exaggeratednaturalness. The extra twist to m> rightfoot does to my bow-legged-pigeon-toed-ness what the black pencil does to thesoubrettes eyebrow. The careless bunchof stray hair sagging toward my frontis-piece does for mj- blankness of countenanceand mv gawkiness of general demeanor what rouge does to the chorus-girls cheekand lips. And the public is made to feel(which is true) that I am giving mj- ownpersonal and peculiar message in my ownpersonal and peculiar w
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