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instructed to clap perhaps before any music had been plaved, for the poor silent screen can only record the music through the reactions of the audience to the music. Here is a weak point of their system. In order to allow our picture-goers to grasp the significance of the music, as the director wants them to understand it, the audience must roughly be divided into groups who will react in the same way. In the concerthall no two people would react in quite the same manner to the same composition, but the average picture-goer cannot be expected to exert himself. Popular conceptions of different people must react in the popularly conceived manner.
Mr. Basil Dean saw to it that his groups acted in unison. His lynx eye detected what the third-man-from-the-left-inthe-last-row was doing, and why was the woman in the silver turban leaning too much to her right? The " supers were marshalled and drilled with the precision worthy of a crack regiment. They were initiated into the laws of etiquette, psychology and other law. Mr. Dean had a flow of witticisms to decorate his instructions. He knew what he wanted, and he knew what the picture-goer w^anted.
Now," he instructed through the megaphone, some people get up and wave their programmes. Not the people in the dress-circle; they have paid more money and are more self-conscious."
You elderly people may show a little approval this time. It is very melodious, so like DEAR Gilbert and Sullivan ; but, of course, you must be verv ' refeened ' in your applause — you know what I mean."
Stop laughing there. When I sav ' one ' you all lean a little to the left, when I say ' two ' . . ."
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