Show Singing Into a Phonograph A young woman who makes her living liv-ing by singing Into phonographs talked the other day about her Job In this work she said there is one great difficulty and that is the absence of an audience When a singer comes out before a big audience to sing the sight I of nil those persons is frightening to her but at the same lime It Is Inspiring 1 Inspir-ing it keys I her up It takes her out of herself and beyond herself She does better than she would have thought It possible to do Singing into a phonograph phono-graph is hard because there Is nothing there to Inspire and intoxicate you Instead In-stead of a house full of people eager lobe lo-be pleased you have an empty room and a big cylinder Hence you feel dull and dumpy You cant put into your voice the brilliance the exhilaration exhilara-tion and the sympathy that come of I themselves when there are human cars listening and understanding Some of the best singers cant sing into the phonograph I pho-nograph at all solely on thls account Others cant sing into it unless they have taken a glass or two of champagne cham-pagne I with hard work have managed man-aged to produce my voice at its best foi the machine just as I do on the stage but In this 1 am singular The persons who can sing Into phonographs so as to do themselves justice are few I I and far between Philadelphia Press I |