19. Carefully observe some animal; then devise several typical gestures.

 

20. Write a brief dialogue between any two animals; read it aloud and invent

expressive gestures.

 

21. Deliver, with appropriate gestures, the quotation that heads this chapter.

 

22. Read aloud the following incident, using dramatic gestures:

 

When Voltaire was preparing a young actress to appear in one of his tragedies,

he tied her hands to her sides with pack thread in order to check her tendency

toward exuberant gesticulation. Under this condition of compulsory immobility

she commenced to rehearse, and for some time she bore herself calmly enough; but

at last, completely carried away by her feelings, she burst her bonds and flung

up her arms. Alarmed at her supposed neglect of his instructions, she began to

apologize to the poet; he smilingly reassured her, however; the gesture was

_then_ admirable, because it was irrepressible.

 

--REDWAY, _The Actor's Art_.

 

23. Render the following with suitable gestures:

 

One day, while preaching, Whitefield "suddenly assumed a nautical air and manner

that were irresistible with him," and broke forth in these words: "Well, my