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One of the best-known studio orchestras is Harry Carey's group of colored melody hounds
diamond and. triumphantly hits the home plate. What is
more, he must anticipate the effect of a certain tune upon
the artist, whether the artist be man, woman, child or
beast, and follow the mood which the artist must assume
as a 'cellist follows the orchestra leader.
It frequently happens, therefore, that talented musicians, who think to fill in their time between engagements
by taking a fling at the movies, are often sadly disillusioned, and that a couple of players ' from the Boston Symphony Orchestra are less success
Harry Langdon, the Sennett comedian, is also their cleverest musician
Gloria Swanson insisted upon Russian music, when she was playing the role of a Russian woman in Wages of Virtue
erous places," said Mr. McCargar. "Once he took the whole orchestra with him to the foot of the Grand Canyon. Men who had never been astride a horse or a mule before hung on desperately to their animals with one hand, and to their instruments with the other, as they made the hairraising descent. Intermittently the mules would stop dead and hang head-first over the edge of the precipice, while their terrified riders glimpsed the bottomless pit beneath them, over the slanted backs of their mounts. Once the mule of the bass-viol player ran away, threw his rider, and smashed the instrument, and only the comedy relief of the incident saved it from being a tragedy."
Harry Carey's colored jazz orchestra follows his camera as faithfully as the cub follows the old bear. Harry is quite certain that he could not make a Western picture without them.
"It isn't only that I like jazz myself," he explains, "but my pictures have action as their key-note. The music helps to give it. Besides, these darkies of mine are a bunch of comedians themselves, and to have them with us is like carrying a full vaudeville."
"Ren Turpin, on the other hand, scorns the idea that an actor needs music to make him "emote."
"See me in Three Foolish Wives," says Ben, rolling his famous eyes, "and observe the fiery passion which a real actor can assume without one note of music !"
Nevertheless, the Sennett studios have, in one of their famous comedians, also one of the best musicians on the Coast, Harry Langdon, and they call for his services whenever a temperamental star refuses to "emote." This often happens with Teddy, the famous Sennett dog, who will play nothing more exciting than dead clog until Harry (Continued on page 114)
ful here than a group of impromptu musicians who have studied the movie game.
Among the musicians most successful ■^^•at producing "atmosphere" is the McCargar Quartet, four veterans in the game. They used to play for William Farnum, back in the days of his famous Westerns, and the tales they tell of the days on location with "Bill" are replete with humorous incidents.
"Bill was so insistent upon music with his acting that he used to take us
/7\ every place with him, even to the dan
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