Photoplay (Apr - Sep 1918)

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What Makes Them Cry ford weeps copiously at the first strains of "Turkey in the Straw" — which by the way neither does — we intend to tell it regardless of results. There are several persons who claim the honor of having first introduced music as a tear persuader but a thorough canvass of the field fails to substantiate their claims. Nor can it be definitely established when it was first tried out. Pioneers who worked with ^^ Griffith in his early Biograph days assert that once back in 1909, he brought in a violinist to play sob stuff for Florence Lawrence. No one has gone back any farther than that. Griffith seems to have started nearly everything in the movies so, in the absence of conflicting data, he may be credited with originating the use of music as first aid to the film director. But even though Griffith may have been the Director Marshall Neilan, who has had such wonderful success in handling the cinema affairs of Mary Pickford, often jumps to the piano, to create a little of the right kind of atmosphere for his star. Here he and the violinist are playing one of Miss Pickford 's crying favorites: "Land of the Sky Blue Water," by Cadman; while at the right, and opposite the grinding camera, Miss Pickford when in the opposing role of Unity, in "Stella Maris," realizes the difference between her own ugliness and Stella Maris' beauty and determines to kill the woman who stood in the way of her hero's happiness. 53 first to use music in the taking of scenes, he has used it less than any other big producer. He relies almost entirely on his ability to bring out the required emotions by sheer mental domination; in fact it has been said that his direction is a near approach to hypnotism. Yet Grif