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Identifier: physicalculture201908macf (find matches)
Title: Physical culture
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: MacFadden, Bernarr Aldolphus, 1858-
Subjects: Physical education and training
Publisher: New York : Physical Culture Publishing Co.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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her speakers* In fact, every suggestion given bythe author can be used by anyone desirous of cultivating a beautiful, melodious voice, foruse in conversation or for other purposes*—Bernarr Macfadden, AS long as singers/\ uncertainty ofX V voicewhen themoment of ap-pearance arrivedhas been a bug-bear—a source ofmuch worry andnervous strain,which things areof themselvesalways more orless certain to bringabout temporarydeterioration in thereal ability of thesinger. In factMme. Lilli Leh-mann, in her well-known and widely-read How toSing, very franklyadmits that ifyou wish to singonly when you arein good form youmust excuse your-self n i n e t y-n i n etimes out of ahundred— an in-spiring statementfor the ambitiousyoung vocalist tohear from a veter-ran like Lehmann. And not onlyto singers and pub-lic speakers, but tothose in the morecommon walks oflife, it is importantthat the voice bealways at its best. Fortunately the have sung, the world has movedbeing in good wrote her book—at
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Photo Copyrig...i_d by Burr Mcintosh Signor Enrico Caruso, the world-re-nowned tenor since the Frauleinleast this part ofthe world. Thedietetician and thephysical culturisthave been abroadin the land andthose of us whohave come undertheir influence havelearned that sauer-kraut and weiner-wurst, frankfurtersausages and beerare not exactlyconducive to clearthroats, clean sys-tems and uncloggedhead and nasalpassages, nor to abright mind andan animated body.Stolidity is a veryexcellent character-istic but not fora public singer.How hard some ofus have had tofight to shake itoff—to become re-sponsive to thedemands of senti-ment! To do well thesinger must knowthat he is in goodvoice and to dohis best he mustknow with cer-tainty beforehandthat he will be ingood voice. Hishabits must be well-formed and, sofar as possible,229 230 PHYSICAL CULTURE

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