This manual is primarily intended to serve as: a) a textbook for college classes in acting; b) a handbook for those actors in school or community who may have begun to "act," in the sense that they have already been cast in several parts, but who have had no real training and wish practical assistance in preparing a role of some proportions. In either case, the manual is meant for the beginner, before he has read widely in more advanced works, or at least before he has developed from wide reading and experience a workable system of his own. In keeping with both of these aims, the volume...