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December 24, 1927
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O, T. Taylor's
Stage
and
Pit
For Stage Band For Organ . . . .
Scrim Stuff Sure Fire with “An
Old Guitar and an Old Refrain **
What Some Other Folks did.
ylNOTHER of those popular scrim presentations suitable for stage band or organ.
Every now and then comes a song hit that it particularly suited to scrim presentations, a song that tells a story and is tuneful as well. “An Old Guitar and an Old Refrain” is one of these and the special set of slides, which the publisher, Villa Moret of Chicago and San Francisco, will furnish upon request, is above the average. It may be well to mention that the romantic story told in the slides is not found in the words of the song, but only in the special slide verses. A set of slides should therefore be secured and read to appreciate the connection between the song and the scrim idea. Altho stage band is suggested in the following routine organ could be substituted with excellent results. The stage band is used to demonstrate the possibilities of inexpensive novelties, such as this, as a feature number to make band presentation more interesting.
So much has been written about stage bands that we feel now that the individual manager should consider the band policy, or even the occasional appearance of a good stage band, from his own standpoint, his own angle, in deciding on the band policy of the house. Used as an organ-scrim prolog to “Loves of Carmen” it will be found that this number, due to the entirely different theme, will in no way detract from the
entertainment value of the picture, as is the case when a presentation idea or prolog is “lifted” from a scene in the picture Used as a stage band novelty this number should go next to the closing number on the program.
THE ROUTINE. (Right and left from audience). The band is stationed on the two platforms in usual formation and a trifle to the left, leaving a passage from the door in the house to the steps and stage in front. In playing the program up to, and including, the slide version of “An Old Guitar” the band works in the setting pictured in figure 1, a scrim masked on the top with a balcony railing over which a huge shawl is draped.
A decorated eye may be substituted for the scrim for the first part of the program and taken up when the novelty number is begun. Drapes carry off right and left. Lights are dimmed to a low blue and slides projected onto the scrim as band plays the slide version. When the last slide is on the scrim, the black, or dark colored backing behind the scrim flies. Repeat music. Blue floods and borders up slowly behind the scrim revealing a Spanish cottage exterior. An amber spot, left overhead, picks out erirl standing on balcony in a dreamy attitude, a big, red rose between her lips. Lights in front dim out. Scrim flies. A youth, strumming a guitar, enters right and serenades the girl. Interpolate Spanish love song, suggested “In Old Madrid” or “La Paloma.” At finish (Please turn to page 49)