Music Trade Review
Issue: 1921 Vol. 72 N. 26 - Page 55
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THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
JUNE 25, 1921
51
The Waltz Sensation of To-day
"YOU'LL NEVER KNOW, NOR CARE"
"DEAR ONE"
The Most Beautiful Waltz-Ballad. By the Writer of "Rose."
"WHEN THE SUNBEAMS KISS THE DEWDROPS FROM THE ROSE"
Sensational Fox-Trot
Write for Introductory Price
MAX E. HASENBEIN & CO., Inc.
230-232 Baker Building
USES MUSIC IN PICTURE MAKING
As Many as 500 Musical Selections Woven into
David Wark Griffith's Screen Plays
Co-ordinating appropriate music with motion
pictures has been brought to a point of perfec-
tion never before realized by exponents of that
practice by David Wark Griffith, famous screen
producer, part of whose modus operandi is
described in American Magazine. According to
the latter a musical score is provided for all
Griffith's big pictures which is played by an en-
tire orchestra to reflect every detail of the
action and the emotions depicted in the picture.
"While the scenes are being taken," says the
American, "Griffith often has the musical direc-
tor at his elbow and hums over to him the
melodies to be developed in connection with
each individual episode. Weeks are spent in
developing the score and fitting it to the action.
When the 'Birth of a Nation' was made 500
separate musical selections were woven into the
score.
Music Publishers
RACINE, WISCONSIN
"When finished the entire picture was run
through eighty-four times, with the orchestral
accompaniment, constant changes being made,
so that the music and the action would syn-
chronize perfectly."
Quoting Griffith, the American says: "When
we were doing 'Broken Blossoms' we spent
days trying to get the right musical effect to
accompany an action which lasted only a few
seconds on the screen. It was the point where
the girl dies. What I wanted was a sound that
would suggest not simply her death cry, but the
flight of her soul.
"We tried the violins over and over. But we
couldn't seem to get anything but the sugges-
tion of the actual physical cry, or wail. Finally
someone spoke of the Russian balalaika orches-
tra, which was playing then in New York. I
began experimenting with them and found that
here was the very instrument I wanted. We
worked until we got the precise effect, and
when the picture was shown we had four
players from the balalaika orchestra for just
those few seconds of the picture."
WEISS TOJMRECT REVUE
Young Orchestra Leader to Direct Harry Car-
roll's New Musical Show
Irving Weiss, a young musical leader, who has
been conducting the orchestra at the Maurice
Club, has been engaged as musical director for
Harry Carroll's new "Musical Revue," which
TRIBUTE TO WOMAN COMPOSER
Musical Paper Tells of the Career of Bertha
Ten Eyck James
THAT SELL!
MAZIE
STRUT ™ LIZZIE
CALLING
SLEEPY HEAD
I LOST MY HEART v T o° u
BOBBIE
SWEET MAMMA c « & )
CUBAN MOON
ESS? CINDERELLA
Send for Our Newest Bulletin
JACK MILLS
Music Publishers
152-54 W. 45th St., NEW YORK
The following unusual comment regarding
Eertha Ten Eyck James appeared in a recent
issue of The Musical Leader. Miss James is
responsible for the text of "The Shadowy Gar-
den," which has made an impression on music
circles, the music of which is by Francisco di
Nogero:
"Bertha Ten Eyck James was born in Los
Angeles, Cal., March 10, 1902, so she has not
yet entered her 'twenties.' She has traveled
somewhat extensively and lived in a variety of
climates amid the most beautiful scenic surround-
ings—the lakes and woods of Minnesota, in the
mountains and close to the deserts of Nevada
and on the seacoast of California. Her educa-
tion has so far been rather exceptional. She at-
tended for a short time a private school in
Minneapolis and received some instruction at
home through private teachers, but for the most
part she carried on her work alone from the
beginning up to within a few months of college
entrance."
STOCK UJ
ON.
FASHI9NE9
GARttN
ITS
A HIT
MELODY
T.B.HARMS,
6Z
WEST
•"* 5 II S T
N B W YORK.
Irving Weiss
is now in rehearsal. Mr. Weiss, although quite
young, has been making a decided name for him-
self and is attracting more than usual attention.
His many friends in the trade are congratulat-
ing him upon his new appointment and they
expect his work to meet with great success.
Riviera Song Hits
"Rose ol China"
"Sweet Southern Dream"
"There'll Come a Time"
"Karma"
"Empty Cellar Blues"
"La Brenda"
"Desertland"
Special Introductory Price to the
Dealers— 15 Cents
THE MUSIC TRADE REVIEW
JUNE 25, 1921
51
The Waltz Sensation of To-day
"YOU'LL NEVER KNOW, NOR CARE"
"DEAR ONE"
The Most Beautiful Waltz-Ballad. By the Writer of "Rose."
"WHEN THE SUNBEAMS KISS THE DEWDROPS FROM THE ROSE"
Sensational Fox-Trot
Write for Introductory Price
MAX E. HASENBEIN & CO., Inc.
230-232 Baker Building
USES MUSIC IN PICTURE MAKING
As Many as 500 Musical Selections Woven into
David Wark Griffith's Screen Plays
Co-ordinating appropriate music with motion
pictures has been brought to a point of perfec-
tion never before realized by exponents of that
practice by David Wark Griffith, famous screen
producer, part of whose modus operandi is
described in American Magazine. According to
the latter a musical score is provided for all
Griffith's big pictures which is played by an en-
tire orchestra to reflect every detail of the
action and the emotions depicted in the picture.
"While the scenes are being taken," says the
American, "Griffith often has the musical direc-
tor at his elbow and hums over to him the
melodies to be developed in connection with
each individual episode. Weeks are spent in
developing the score and fitting it to the action.
When the 'Birth of a Nation' was made 500
separate musical selections were woven into the
score.
Music Publishers
RACINE, WISCONSIN
"When finished the entire picture was run
through eighty-four times, with the orchestral
accompaniment, constant changes being made,
so that the music and the action would syn-
chronize perfectly."
Quoting Griffith, the American says: "When
we were doing 'Broken Blossoms' we spent
days trying to get the right musical effect to
accompany an action which lasted only a few
seconds on the screen. It was the point where
the girl dies. What I wanted was a sound that
would suggest not simply her death cry, but the
flight of her soul.
"We tried the violins over and over. But we
couldn't seem to get anything but the sugges-
tion of the actual physical cry, or wail. Finally
someone spoke of the Russian balalaika orches-
tra, which was playing then in New York. I
began experimenting with them and found that
here was the very instrument I wanted. We
worked until we got the precise effect, and
when the picture was shown we had four
players from the balalaika orchestra for just
those few seconds of the picture."
WEISS TOJMRECT REVUE
Young Orchestra Leader to Direct Harry Car-
roll's New Musical Show
Irving Weiss, a young musical leader, who has
been conducting the orchestra at the Maurice
Club, has been engaged as musical director for
Harry Carroll's new "Musical Revue," which
TRIBUTE TO WOMAN COMPOSER
Musical Paper Tells of the Career of Bertha
Ten Eyck James
THAT SELL!
MAZIE
STRUT ™ LIZZIE
CALLING
SLEEPY HEAD
I LOST MY HEART v T o° u
BOBBIE
SWEET MAMMA c « & )
CUBAN MOON
ESS? CINDERELLA
Send for Our Newest Bulletin
JACK MILLS
Music Publishers
152-54 W. 45th St., NEW YORK
The following unusual comment regarding
Eertha Ten Eyck James appeared in a recent
issue of The Musical Leader. Miss James is
responsible for the text of "The Shadowy Gar-
den," which has made an impression on music
circles, the music of which is by Francisco di
Nogero:
"Bertha Ten Eyck James was born in Los
Angeles, Cal., March 10, 1902, so she has not
yet entered her 'twenties.' She has traveled
somewhat extensively and lived in a variety of
climates amid the most beautiful scenic surround-
ings—the lakes and woods of Minnesota, in the
mountains and close to the deserts of Nevada
and on the seacoast of California. Her educa-
tion has so far been rather exceptional. She at-
tended for a short time a private school in
Minneapolis and received some instruction at
home through private teachers, but for the most
part she carried on her work alone from the
beginning up to within a few months of college
entrance."
STOCK UJ
ON.
FASHI9NE9
GARttN
ITS
A HIT
MELODY
T.B.HARMS,
6Z
WEST
•"* 5 II S T
N B W YORK.
Irving Weiss
is now in rehearsal. Mr. Weiss, although quite
young, has been making a decided name for him-
self and is attracting more than usual attention.
His many friends in the trade are congratulat-
ing him upon his new appointment and they
expect his work to meet with great success.
Riviera Song Hits
"Rose ol China"
"Sweet Southern Dream"
"There'll Come a Time"
"Karma"
"Empty Cellar Blues"
"La Brenda"
"Desertland"
Special Introductory Price to the
Dealers— 15 Cents
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