The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-03-16
By DOLLY DALRYMPLE

HH1fT requires a tremendous musical
vocabulary to play for the moving
pictures successfully, and to Sult
the music to the sentiment 1 mean oy
this that the theatrical organist must
be right on the spot with the proper
music every minute Of the time, as the
picture changes so rapidly and the diff
ferent sentiments succeed each other SO
quickly. / play almost entirely by ear,
as the saying goes, and in that way |
am able to enlarge my musical vocaSu-
larry every day because anything / hear
can play
Mrs. Fl. w. Stewart, the tiny slip of a
woman who plays the big orchestral pipe
organ which has just this week been
installed at the Bijou theatre, explained
yesterday to me just after she'd finished
playing the picture at the matinee per-
Torrance, in the foregoing statement
how she had successfully accomplished
her work as an excellent theatrical or
ganist
Mrs. Stewart is frail and girlish look
ing, as slender as reed, her most ex-
pressive features being her big brown
point the elimination of the magnificent
story of the poor weaver who achieved
worldwide fame and accomplished a
mighty work. 1t becomes a symbol to
the listening boy, whose own life flames
up at the touch of the torch held out
to him and who sets out to find the
bird unconscious that it is himself he
is really seeking and truly finding
The book is written in Mr. Aliens
most charming style, which is the highest
compliment that can be paid it.
1.-THE U. P. TRAIL"
BY Zane Grey. Harper Brothers, pub
fishers, New York.
The building of the Union Pacific rail-
road is the theme around which centers
the story by Zane Grey called 1.-THE u.
P. Trail" 1t is one OF the most vivid
and interesting books this clever author
has every written. Brimfull of action
the story moves at rapid pace and Zane
Grey is the first of American authors to
be inspired by that epic tina. was lived
try to tell by the art Of words the
story of the building of the Union Pa
cific His own love for and large ex-
perience in the wild places of mountain
and desert, his knowledge of the men
OF those regions who had their share in
the building of the road, and the tales
they have told around cannpfires about
the things they did and say and were a
part Of. have been for him at once in
spiration for the task and material for
the work
So epic was the tale he had to tell
that he needed and has used a big can
vas, canvas lurid, volcanic, burnt and
rent with human passions at their best
and their basest and human energies
strained to their tensest. Indeed, so big
is the canvas, so dynamic the energies,
so loud and lusty the passions that they
almost make havoc of the story as a
piece of patterned literary mechanism.
Making a story out of such material must
have been somewhat like trying to re-
duce the roar of Niagara to cadenced
harnonies or it's seething whirlpool to
balanced movement But Mr.. Grey evil
IDENTIFY first visioned clearly the elements
necessary for such tale-the vast empty
stretches of mountain uplands and val
leys, the wild gorges and frownng preci-
pieces, all the background of the wilder
ness of the Rocky mountain in the latter
sixties, and the Indians who chung to
it, and the occasional lone scout or
trapper who made his home in some hid
den valley; the men of high and daunt-
less vision, out of whose mental urge the
road was born and their helpers, the
men of muscle and courage. who built