TWAIN-L Archives

Mark Twain Forum

TWAIN-L@YORKU.CA

Options: Use Forum View

Use Monospaced Font
Show Text Part by Default
Show All Mail Headers

Message: [<< First] [< Prev] [Next >] [Last >>]
Topic: [<< First] [< Prev] [Next >] [Last >>]
Author: [<< First] [< Prev] [Next >] [Last >>]

Print Reply
Subject:
From:
ron hohenhaus <[log in to unmask]>
Reply To:
Date:
Fri, 8 Jun 2007 01:07:42 +1000
Content-Type:
text/plain
Parts/Attachments:
text/plain (20 lines)
Re Jerry Dean's comment:

>I also have a recollection of something one of his daughters said of
>his speech on the lecture platform. It seems to me that her comment was
>about how much slower and more heavily accented his speech was when he
>gave lectures than when he spoke normally.


Clara writes: "Father knew the full value of a pause and had the courage to
make a long one when required for a big effect. And his inimitable drawling
speech, which he often lost in private life, greatly increased the humorous
effect on the stage."

Pp. 138-139, "My Father -- Mark Twain", Harper and Brothers, New York 1931

Regards to all

Ron Hohenhaus
Australia

ATOM RSS1 RSS2