Show 1 The Art of Interviewing 1 By DR FRANK CRANE One of the recent Hawaiian fliers filers said that he had learned a good deal about the art of interviewing from his experience Interviewing is an art and a science and you OU have to study before you rou can master it Paul Scott Mowrer the Parisian correspondent of the Dally Daily News of Chicago told me once that when you interviewed a man you OU had to tell him what to say Pe Peoples People's ples Idea of what a man ought to be and say is rather conventional It follows certain fixed lines It it is an interview of the preacher the preacher must act up to his part lIe He must be solemn and ponderous and pious People will not tolerate a light remark from a man who they think is serious Bankers m must st be what all bankers are supposed to tobe tobe be and prize fighters must have cauliflower ears find And be rough bruisers whether they are or not George Ade says Give the people what they want The idea ot of interviewing Is to tell people what they expect to hear not report the facts as you ou find them nor a mans man's ideas as he expresses them II lie must run true to form If he Is a bishop for instance with sporty tendencies and tastes you must not tell the people bout about them but you OU must put words in his mouth that he o ought to speak whether he speaks s them or not To be a good interviewer you ou must male make a man say what you ou want him him to say lIe must have the ideas that you OU want him to he has them or not As a ot of fact great men as well as little men are human all sorts sorts' or of human foibles Perhaps Mrs Grundy dy is to blame for fOl our Ideas ot of great men She is apt to catch hold or of any any little slip that any of them may make and magnify it George Washington must not swear when he pounds his finger with the hammer and Abe Lincoln must not tell teU any Rabelaisian stories There are so man many gray wolves solves waiting to catch hold of these slips and magnify magni- magni fy them unduly Every Everyone one has weaknesses and we all unite In suppressing sup sup- pr pressing the mistakes of those we love Copyright 1929 McClure Newspaper SyndIcate I- I I 1 |