Motion Picture Classic (Jul-Dec 1930)

Are You Musical? {Continued from page 69) >ing balked hy anything like that! When > wanted someone to sing "How Am I to now?" in jail, so that his hero and heroine )uld make it a sort of love-theme-song in le later scenes, he was not perturbed by the ct that the average prison cell isn't juipped with a ukulele. A uke just ap^ared out of the nowhere to be strummed \ the man in the next cell to Charles ickford, who, by an odd quirk of fate, hapt ned to have a voice of professional caliber. That is the great thing about being musi;! in the talkies. Instead of being denied our favorite music at such times, any inrument you may happen to play is always ) hand. If a grand piano or a harp had (cn called for in the "Dynamite" scene, I 111 sure De Mille would have seen to it that lie particular cell in question was equipped ith one. If you find it hard to sing without an ( companiment at the odd moments when is called for in the talkies, do not despair. \ hether you are situated in the fastnesses : the desert, on the top of a mountain, or 1 top of the world, there is always a first:<iss symphony orchestra just outside camra range, ready to give you the opening ars and help you right through your song. In the Best Arctic Circles rHE best instance of this was a scene I saw being taken in a studio in England, : short time ago. There were a half-dozen len marooned somewhere near the North ole — cut ofif by the snow from all commuication with the outside world. The direc^r had been quick to realize that this was great time to bring in some incidental lusic, just to show there was still a sound rack on the film. So, of course, one of the laracters was turned into an ex-vaudeville irformer; and the others with one voice amored for a song. No sooner had they ■ne so than an orchestra of sixty piects -truck up the first bars of a jazz number. Even as they played, the ex-vaude man was saying, "Oh, no, boys, you know I'm a'rotten singer." The words were hardly out of his mouth when the orchestra came to where he was supposed to start singing; so without more ado, he sang. If you're musical, the talkies are the best place for you. Anything from a symphony orchestra to a clarinet is always at hand. They Know A Thing Or Two {Continued from page 8j) growing up and you ought to know by now what you want out of life. I can't be always at your side, wiping off your mouths and setting you on your feet again. By now you ought to have some idea of the way you want to go in life and what you want to make of it.' "That's what I'd say to them. "'And don't forget that the Right Way is the easiest way, and the best way all along. Not because I'm telling you so. Try it for yourself. Words don't mean anything. Experience does. 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