Excerpt from Between Two Lives: A Drama of the Passing of the Old and the Coming of the New in Rural Life In acting a play, words are only a part. What is equally important is action. Each part must be thoroughly studied, committed to memory and then acted. Don't be stiff. Move about on the stage. Don't sit still; don't stand in one place. If you do sit down, let it be just for a moment; then rise and walk to some other part of the stage. Keep moving - move your hands, your feet, your eyes, your head. The point is, be doing something. Study your part and introduce just as many little "acting" features as you can think of. Sam, Rastus, Trueletta and Abagail must make the audience laugh; they must furnish amusement. Each should "work up" little things for doing this. This is the "acting part," and each individual must initiate and originate little things of an "action" nature to go with the lines of the text. It is the same with every role of the play. The more original features thus introduced in connection with the speaking parts, together with lively action, gestures, changes in position on the stage, the brighter will be the play and the greater the interest in the parts and the persons impersonating them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.