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Helen Keller's Address to the Blind of New York City

1914; SAGE Publishing; Volume: 7; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1177/0145482x1400700402

1559-1476

Theater, Performance, and Music History

The personal experiences which Mrs. Macy relates are particularly happy and never fail to interest the audience. Miss Keller gives her address without having each sentence repeated by an interpreter as was formerly customary. Her voice is distinctly clearer as a result of the diligent study she has been giving to voice production. One of the most attractive features of, their program comes at the end when the young women offer to answer questions that members of the audience care to ask. The rapidity and jovialty with which Miss Keller participates in this repartee delights everyone. Whether the questioner asks her opinion on the woman's suffrage movement, astronomy, or her favorite poet, Miss Keller gives an immediate and appropriate answer. Often her responses are full of humor and so brilliant that the audience is captivated. While passing through New York Mr. Walter G. Holmes arranged for a meeting to which only the blind and their friends were invited. Mr. William Ziegler, the son of the founder of the Matilda Ziegler Magazine, paid for the theatre so that the blind might have the opportunity of hearing Miss Keller, and we give below her address upon that occasion.