Motion Picture News (Jul-Aug 1916)

July 15, 1916 ACCESSORY NEWS SECTION sm be able to syhchrortize his music to the approval of his audience. It is gratifying to note that all the different music publishers are making a special effort at the present time and for the future to publish musical compositions which have a known adaptation for photoplay theatre work. We now come to the end, which all my readers know that I cannot endorse. Not being personally acquainted with the writer, and as he does not state any of his personal experiences, it is difficult for me to realize why or for what reason he contends that " The score's the thing." I come in contact daily with musicians from all over the country, and up to the present time I have had no reason to change my opinion, namely, " The score is not the thing." Pictures such as "The Birth of a Nation," " The Fall of a Nation," " Civilization," or pictures similarly adapted for so-called big productions and scheduled for later tours, should have an original well rehearsed and properly synchronized score. Remember that these pictures are scheduled to be produced throughout the country with systematized projection and with orchestras of capable, well-paid musicians, who are rehearsed down to the point of playing the picture with their eyes closed. That this is possible has been successfully demonstrated by that wonderful picture, " The Birth of a Nation." Every talented musician and all other persons directly interested in the high musical art which we expect to realize throughout picturedom in the future should know that when I say the music score should be reserved for such productions and not sent out promiscuously to such points where no opportunity of any kind is given the musician to properly render them. Such a condition will make the score ridiculed at all times. In grand opera scores every music lover knows that when the score is presented in its entirety with the opera it is accepted as a whole ; nevertheless, when the music of such an opera is used to entertain at home or in other places of entertainment, the public only accepts that which they particularly like. It is consequently sacrilegious and detrimental to the great composers and musicians who may in the future find great opportunities in picturedom for their labors, that we should to day desecrate music to the extent as is done in these so-called scores. Score Less Men of Acknowledged Ability The score will be the thing, but only when it is the property and the work of the man in the musical profession whom we look up to. The scores at the present time are the innovation of music publishers, not picture musicians, and any man with fair judgment can see they will assist in holding off the success of the big production which I know every musician and every man interested in music in the country wants to see a big success. Furthermore, Mr. Roeber is somewhat misinformed if he thinks that any library in the world is in a position to use 10,000 numbers, and not 100,000 as he states, for the purpose of creating scores with the present existing copyright laws, and 10,000 is very highly overestimated. Why not be fair to ourselves and everybody else interested in picturedoin? Let us hold the scores for those who can and will need them and who will inake a profit both for the composer and the musician by their use, and thereby add more splendor to the photoplay theatre. Don't allow the music score, which will be the birth of high art, to become a cheap and annoying thing to those who are not able to use them or those who have not the opportunity to give them proper time and rehearsal. AIRDOME SEASON IN CALIFORNIA IS BACKWARD AND MANY MANAGERS CONTINUE TO USE REGULAR THEATRES, FITTED WITH COOLING SYSTEMS 'T~'HE airdome season has opened rather late in California this A year, owing to the fact that but little warm weather has been experienced anywhere. In some places where airdomes have been used in the past it is planned to use the regular theatres, unless there is a great change in the weather, cooling systems having been installed. H. D. Hubbard has opened an airdome at Calistoga, Cal., his initial offering being "Carmen," featuring Geraldine Farrar, arid this is reported as being one of the most successful openings ever held in that section. F. H. Smith, of the Empress Theatre, Lindsay, Cal., has also opened an airdome, although no oppressive weather has been experienced^' there as yet The city is located in the heart of the citrus belt of central Calif^>r-sia7 — Latest Kimball Organs in Baltimore: The first Kimball Orchestral Organ in Baltimore was opened in the Mount Royal Theatre in May. The second one was opened in the Rialto Theatre, of the same ownership, in June. Lubin's will have the third, installed in the summer. If you want a really musical orchestral organ, write to W. W. 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