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As his popularity increased the waning of his self-respect told him that he must go into retreat, anywhere out of the musical world else would his art suffer. It did suffer. The nervous diffidence, called stage-fright, which had never assailed his supreme self-balance, intruded its unwelcome presence.
The great orator cares nothing about all this. I think of the good man, and the bad man, and the mad man, that may be among them, and can say nothing. He takes them all as one man. He sways them as one man." This, I take it, hardly spelled stage-fright.
He had not been an actor long, for loss of form had put him out of first-class cricket, and the impresario had given his place in the next piece to a googly bowler who had done well in the last Varsity match; but he had been one long enough to experience that sinking sensation which is known as stage-fright.
"I tried it," she admitted, with a smile. "The title had a melancholy attraction for me. I had no idea the composer was overhearing, or I should have had stage-fright dreadfully." "Play something else," Mark suggested. "It would give me so much pleasure. Something not Mark Faraday." Miss Allison rose decisively. "No, I will play 'Crabbed Age," she decided, "and youth shall sing it."
I have said before that the borderline between the physiology of voice-production and the psychology of song is a narrow one whereof the above cure for stage-fright is but another case in point. How will you know the pitch of that great bell, Too large for you to stir? Let but a flute Play 'neath the fine-mixed metal!
It is rather a desire to accelerate the flight of Time, and get to business quickly. All things come to him who waits, and among them is that unpleasant sensation of a cold hand upon the portion of the body which lies behind the third waistcoat button. The boxing had begun with a bout between two feather-weights, both obviously suffering from stage-fright.
A man must be, in the old Greek phrase, "either a God or a beast," if he does not prepare for print if not exactly with a touch of "stage-fright," at any rate with the premeditation with which even stage-fright-free actors go on the stage. But it requires a great master or mistress of dissimulation to write even these letters at all frequently without a certain amount of self-revelation.
First of all comes a fault far enough removed from the characteristic vices of the charlatan to wit, sheer timidity and weakness. There is a kind of stage-fright that seizes on a man when he takes pen in hand to address an unknown body of hearers, no less than when he stands up to deliver himself to a sea of expectant faces.
Keen impressions, whether of joy or pain, are, in Dr. Poyet's opinion, bad for the voice. Great fear may cause a passing but instantaneous loss of voice. "Vox faucibus hæsit." The emotion of singing in public, as everyone knows, prevents many artists from showing their full capacity. Only custom, and sometimes reasoning, can free them from "stage-fright."
I sit behind a moonlit balcony in a space about two feet square, and drop a lamp-chimney into a box. It may not sound like a very important part, but it is the pivot upon which the whole plot turns." "I hope you won't be taken with stage-fright," laughed Cathy. "I'll try not," said Patty. "There comes the butler and Lord Bromley and Cynthia. I've got to go and make them up."
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