The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-07-23
TALBOT REVEALS
MOVIE SECRETS
They Really Use Music to
Produce Emotions on
Screen, He Says

After attending Rotary conven-
tion, taking advantage ~ pictorial
rcffcshmout offered by California
cities. crossing over into Canada ana
descending thcrefrom 10 northern
cities of this country for brief stops
and last but not least hobnObbluR
with the idols of the movie world In
Hollywood, Ralph Talbot IL back.
with personalities and working
habits Of picture folk fresh In his
mind. the Malestlc thcnter owner
has a fund Of interesting sidolights
TO shed ON pictures and picture max
ing ana picture people. For instance,
~ really isn't just story that di-
rcctors use music To- AID players in
/ Registering emotions. II Mary
Miutford, for Instance. were to AS
sumo a gwcotly pcnsiyo expression,
that expression would be CoaNed
th6ro with the aid ~ appropriate
music coming from somewhere in
The offnE. Sometimes there Is such
a ain Of hammeIing and plny-mak-
Ing on ether nearby stages that II
/ is a wonder that tho music is ever
heard, Talbot said, for instance
while certain scene for Robin
I Hood that Fairbanks IL now max
l.
/ Ing away at "a little old folding organ
at one side. How the music was
ever heard above the racket Talbot
did not know. but II evidently was
or IN" player would not have cOntin-
ucd TO pcracycrc.
/ Actor folk are as Il rule most llltu-
/ BILE ana woll-Informed people, pleas
ant to meet. Talbot spoke Of
/ Thomas Meighan especially as being
/ "a most likablc chap, Harold Lloyd
most democratic and pleasant, Bert
| Lytell interesting and enjoying the
reputation OF being "A splendid pub
/ lie speaker. Tho painstaking way IN
which what seems to be minor de-
tails OF picture making are worked
/ out was emphasized by Talbot, who
/ recalled a minor scene In a Meighan
production In which DE Mile made
/ Mcighan and Miss JOY, playing OPP
posite him, go over and over one
small bit OF action. when Talbot
left, at tho end OF As minutes. the
scene had not yet been filmed. An
other instance OF this kind was the
|insistcnce OF Betty Compson's dt-
rector that she go over and over one
seemingly inconsequcntinl bit OF ac-
tiOn in ITO Have and TO Hold that
she Is making with Bert Lytcll.
The most successful players. and
the players whose success Is not
waning are those who realize tho
Importance OF a good director and
who are keen enough to recognize
the authority OF the director, even
though he he employed by them. IT
lis the exceptional man or woman
who can successfully direct his or
her own plays. Fairbanks, in Rob
lin Hood" FOR which an immense set
has been erected and that IL now
one OF the sights" OF the so-callcd
movie colony, has worked over and
over again on scenes of his play until
he has done them to suit the di-
rector, Notwithstanding the fact that
he may have done II a number OF
times previously in n way that
suited himself.
That the rich funS OF good music
already available is being used foi
pictures now rather than specla'
scores being written for them, and
that smaller orchcstras are replac
.ing the mammoth ones were tive
outstanding features OF music as re-
lated 20 pictures noticed by Talbot
Smoothness and continuity In or
IChestra music for pictures are TIVE
things for which musical director!
in picture thcaters are working anC
the Majestic Director Herrick Leaves
today TO confer with authorities
on the subject, pending working ou
OF that problem here AZ the Majestic
Mr. and Mrs Talbot visited with
Talhot's father In Los Angeles hi
sister In Oregon and stopped II
other cities Of California and oregon
Washington, Canada and northern
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