duce a girl (the mistress
of a house) to have a telephone installed. Make the dialogue realistic
and interesting.

2. Let a girl demonstrate a vacuum cleaner (or some other appliance)
to another girl (mistress of a house).

3. Let a boy apply for a position to a man in an office.

4. Let a boy dictate a letter to a gum-chewing, fidgety, harum-scarum
stenographer.

5. Let this stenographer tell the telephone girl about this.

6. Show how a younger sister might talk at a baseball or football game
to her slightly older brother who was coerced into bringing her with
him.

7. Show a fastidious woman at a dress goods counter, and the tired,
but courteous clerk. Do not caricature, but try to give an air of
reality to this.

8. Show how two young friends who have not seen each other for weeks
might talk when they meet again.

9. Deliver the thoughts of a pupil at eleven o'clock at night trying
to choose the topic for an English composition due the next morning.
Have him talk to his mother, or father, or older brother, or sister.

10. A foreign woman speaking and understanding little English, with a
ticket to Springfield, has by mistake boarded a through train which
does not stop there. The conductor, a man, and woman try to explain to
her what she must do.

11. Let three different pairs of pupils represent the girl and the
fruit seller cited in the paragraphs preceding these exercises.

12. A young man takes a girl riding in a new automobile. Reproduce
parts of the ride.

13. Two graduates of your school meet after many years in a distant
place. Reproduce their reminiscenses.

14. A woman in a car or coach has lost or misplaced her transfer or
ticket. Give the conversation between her and the conductor.

15. Let various pairs of pupils reproduce the conversations of patrons
of moving pictures.

16. Suggest other characters in appropriate situations. Present them
before the class.

Characters Conceived by Others. In all the preceding exercises you
have been quite unrestricted in your interpretation. You have been
able to make up entirely the character you presented. Except for a few
stated details of sex, age, occupation, nature, no suggestions were
given of the person indicated. Delineation is fairly easy to
construct when you are given such a free choice of all possibilities.
The next kind of exercise will involve a restriction to make the
acting a little more like the acting of a role in a regular play.