Evening Star Newspaper, January 25, 1931, Page 81

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. T, YANUARY 25,. I93L. - Your Voice Bespeaks Your 1) haracter Mrs. Anne Tillery Renshaw has aided many to improve the tone and n persons gimbre of their speech. BY NELL RAY CLARKE. UT 5 per cent of the divorces and ; many business failures cam be traced /‘ to voice tone—to unpleasant' tones which rasp, antagonize or irritate. The well modulated, sympathetic voice can @o much to reduce marital unhappiness and to old business success. Lagubriousness in tone is partially responsible for the business depression at the present time. Even ‘when pcople say “Business is geiting %0 his client, of the financier, or any one in profession or business where contact with public is necessary, is the gauge of success the character fal And perhaps of each it I are some of the interesting facts that Mrs. Anne Tillery Renshaw has found out fsom many years of study of human speech and fts effects upon others. Before she came to Washington Mrs. Renshaw taught English, speech and sociology for 12 years im colleges. Sinde then she trained platform orators, among them 350 campaigners for President Coolidge. SHer pupils Rave been high Government offi- ®ials, officers of the Army and Navy, scientists, women from 27 different professions of business, and women who must the social limelight. The attaches of and legations have sought her out to feam the difference between Washington Eng- jish and Oxford English. Recently she was elected the first and only woman on the Washington faculty of the ‘American Institute of Banking to teach its first. eultural subject, the pleasant appreach through mse of tone qualities to the woice. People seek Mrs. Renshaw's help for all sorts of afflictions—scH-consciousness, lack of poise, ever had was the wife of a famous Public Health Service physician, a college graduate and a of cultural background. Yet when she this room the muscles of her face interview I could s big H i i i’grg | How People Reveal Their Personalities by Vocal Expression and Tone Quality Told by a Wash- ington Woman Who Has T'rained Many Public Officials. family and her friends. Her husband has often thanked me for what I did for her.” Mrs, Renshaw regards her work as an ad- venture in human nature. Each person is for her a laboratory experiment as well as a human being needing help. She says the grave re- sponsibility involved tends to increase hu- mility in approaching the problem. “As you can readily see, the value of the work is threefold,” she explained. “It is remedial—a re-education follow-up after psy- chiatric adjustment—in social relatienships, in family relationships and in communicative ap- proach. Psychiatrists find, after they have uncovered the imhibitions, repressions and hidden emotions which have created psychoses or neuroses, that work is needed in building up & social or business approach, and they often send their patients to me. “Through speech education students learn to relieve strain, to ‘come back’ in their re- lationships with their fellow man, to reduce braggadocio, to relieve self-consciousness and thereby to perfect their success indi- vidual expression in their attitude and voice to others. “For instance, not so long ago & man who for years had been a successful cotton broker beaten. Everyihing in his attitude and voice % .. “‘I reckon I want to be a bond salesman,’ he said. “How far his approach was from his am- He was conscious of failure in business “Ndrlouuolwamm'homdohw speaking came o me. She was The sonoscope, invented at the human veice and The telegraphone, used by the coeds of the University of Southern Californis 89 ersity of Towa, regi shows how to correct tonal poor enunciation .dnm of the unpleasant voice tones. bear on the warmest of human relationships. Many business and professional women find out that a poor veice is a Hability in ‘their approach fo the public. “The third phase of the subject is the fested in the way in which they speak the English language, for a mastery of the mother is essential in business. NI §5§g§55§ i ki i ;i B | | | I I ; : movies—that of a flapper who tells flapper in breathy tones “he so” and “he said such and too, is exhausting. It is ordination in breathing and thoughtless person who is inconsiderate of others. “The prim-precise voice is by a tightening of the lips of £f ML i BEE 1ACopasight J0BL)1on 1ari FALLLTHOIF IO