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THE MOVING PICTURE WORLD
oMusic for the Picture
BY CLARENCE E. SINN
THE following was crowded out of my last letter through lack of space: "Dear Sir: I always find your articles and department in general a great help in settling the question, 'What shall I play for the picture.' Even though I know for a certainty that three-fourths of the patrons of our theater are utterly oblivious to the music, for the other fourth, I feature every possible situation and climax in each picture as much for my own satisfaction as anything else.
"I agree with Miss Ditmar, in the February ist number, in regard to opera selections: they are my especial hobby. I might suggest that in addition to those Miss Ditmar cites, the most of which I have used to advantage, the following are equally excellent: 'Little Boy Blue, Rose Maid. Spring Maid. The Firefly, The Love Cure, Oh. Oh, Delphine, Under Many Flags, Hanky Panky. Count of Luxembourg, He Came From Milwaukee, Mile. Modiste, Lady of the Slipper, and The Red Rose. Also the overtures. "Pique Dame. Jolly Robbers, La Boheme, and Madame Butterfly.' Fraternally, G. Warner Metcalfe, Grand Theater. Holyoke, Mass."
Mr. Metcalfe says that though a majority of his audience may be oblivious to the music, he plays for the minority as well as for his own satisfaction. This is the right spirit. But very often a great part of the oblivious majority may sense the fitness of the musical accompaniment without being aware of it. Anyhow it is pretty generally understood that the music should never be so prominent as to detract from the picture, but should at all times be made subserviant to it. For that reason many patrons may not always notice the music in particular unless there is something wrong with it. And, after all, a musician's greatest satisfaction is found in his own approval of his work.
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Organists, of whom the number employed in moving picture theaters is constantly increasing, will lie delighted with the new book of organ music published by Meyer & Bro., 77 W. Washington Street, Chicago. 111. I have examined this book and can vouch for the excellent quality of its musical contents and theif adaptability to moving picture work.
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The militant spirit seemed to predominate among the feature films viewed last week. Here are suggestions for music to three most excellent war pictures — every one a feature: "THE WOE OF BATTLE" (Kalem).
1. Heavy, hurry (for battle), p. and f. until title: "General
Greene Makes Headquarters, etc."
2. "Flight of the Birds" (by Rice; pub. by Walter Jacobs)
until title: "You Are My Brother's Murderer." Short sentimental — one scene. Short march until title: "A Broken Heart." Pathetic music for one scene.
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456. Long heavy, hurry (for battle) until hospital scene.
78.
Plaintive until title: "Love's, Last Farewell.'
"The Vacant Chair," very pathetic until close of picture.
"THE RETREAT FROM MOSCOW" (Pathe). (Courtesy of William E. King.) Part First. "Russian National Hymn" until title: "Napoleon, To Inflame the Courage, etc." "Marsellaisc" (short) until change of scene. Hurry (for battle) until man is brought to general; then
subdue until change of scene. Agitato p. and f. until title: "After the Battle." "Reine de Sabe" (March, by Gounod i once through, then: Testmarsch from Tannheuser" until end of reel. Second Part. t. Storm scene from "William Tell" (long) until officers come out of The Krimlin.
2. "l'artant Pour la Syrie" (French song) until change.
3. Agitato p. and f. until title: "The Incendiaries."
4. Solemn (for execution) until title: "Napoleon. Fearing
the Russian Winter."
5. "Marsellaisc" until title: "The Grand Army Pursued by
the Russians."
6. "Partant Pour la Syrie" until title: "The Cossacks
Harrass the Retreating Army."
7. Second movement "Halka" overture until peasants at
tack straggling soldiers.
8. Short agitato until change of scene.
q. "Partant Pour la Syrie" until title: "At Last Getting the
Remnant of His Army." 10. "Marsellaise" until end of picture.
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overture pp. until title: "Pauline is Overheard."
AULINE CCSHMAN. THE FEDERAL SPY" (Selig). Part First. Third movement of "Raymond Overture" pp. until title:
"The Toast." "It Is Better to Laugh Than Be Sighing" (from "La
Traviata") until title: "Here's to Jeff Davis and the
Southern Confederacy." "Dixie" until change of scene. Introduction to "Pique Dame"
"In the South." "Bonnie Blue blag" until title: Short agitato until back to camp scene, then: "Bonnie Blue blag" again pp. until change of scene. Semi-mysterious (similar to No. 4: long) until: "Holmes
Inform Rosecrans." "Military March" mf. and p. to action until she crawls
out from under tent. Agitato p. and t. according to action until she discards
drum and rides way. Hurry; begin p. and increase with action until she enters
Union camp. "Yankee Doodle" until end of Part First.
Part Second. Short March until she is left alone in second scene. Mysterious through next three scenes until she takes
officer's arm and exits. Long semi-mysterious with military suggestion: similar
to second movement in "Halka" overture or "Lady
Moon" song from Bohemian Girl played in march
tempo until old negro left alone in room. Mysterious semi-agitato until title. "The Confederate
Ambush." March. "Gate City" (Weldon); subdue while writing is
seen; play until she is seen in cane brake. Agitato p. and f. At tinted scene change to: Hurry (for battle) p. and f. until title: "General Rosecrans Honors Pauline." March, until end of picture.
BUSTER'S SISTER.
"Buster." more properly known a Roswell Johnson, of the Lubin company, has a sister. His father, also Roswell. has a daughter (very naturally) and she is to be called Ormi Hawley Johnson, to further add to the confusion. Ever since Buster was added to the Lubin staff there have been questions innumerable as to whether "Buster" was Arthur Johnson's son. though Raymond and Alfred Hackett, who really are the Johnson offspring, never are linked up with their better-known father. To head off any questions as to whether Ormi Hawley Johnson is the son of Arthur Johnson and Ormi Hawley. be it said at once that she is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs" Roswell Johnson and that Mrs. Johnson is not Miss Hawley. Johnson turns the camera for George O. Nicholls. who directs the Hawley section of the Lubin company. That's why.
HALLBERG ESTABLISHING AGENCIES.
Mr. M. L. Livingston, sales representative for J. H. Hallberg "The Economizer Man" left for a trip to Chicago on Tuesday of this week, calling at several of the towns enroute going and coming. The purpose of the trip is to close pending deals on Economizers, and to establish dealers agencies for Powers. Simplex and Motiograph moving picture machines, as well as for the Hallberg Specialties.