In this book, Helen Potter uses her years of experience in the entertainment industry to provide readers with a hilarious send-up of popular celebrities of her time. Through clever impersonations and use of comic timing, Potter takes the reader on a journey to meet her cast of anti-heroes and anti-heroines: from the blustery Joe Bowers to the preening and prevaricating Celia and Harold. Her humor, though biting at times, never fails to leave the reader feeling entertained and uplifted. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Excerpt from Helen Potter's Impersonations In all ages we have had artists and orators; people who held the sacred fire as their inheritance among men an inheritance more powerful than gold, or wonderful jew els, or landed estates. These men and women were leaders of their time, and even unto this day are held in great ven cration and esteem. And the works of artists in clay, marble, and iron, and on canvas are enduring, and eagerly sought for. But the most wonderful of all, the power of the human voice, goes to the winds and is lost forever. Seek as we may, the winds tell us not of these masters of oratory and song. Their master tones reach not our ears, and we know of their power only by tradition. 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.

(Limelight). Blumenfeld convincingly argues that the basic techniques of acting apply whether the actor is performing onstage or in a sound studio. Numerous practice exercises help the actor to speak the words of a text that can be enhanced by the varying sounds of the human voice.