New Britain herald., 1927-03-12

l tra plays. It's the same routine and each week, on Saturday and Thurs day mornings. the orchestra must return to the tneater to rehcarse and practice their parts so that when the picture is shown there will be TO slipups.
 Do Not Watch Picture While feature, news recI or any other picture is being shown the men III the orchestra do not watch it, and govern their playing accord ingly. The director alone watches it and so perfectly is the music score worked out that the music dove-tails with tn" scene to the very second. There are times however, when the movie projection machine may auto matically speed up ana were It not checked might run away from the orchestral: but Mir. Jeffs has an automatic electrical signal from the pit to the projection booth and If he finds a picture is running a trifle ahead of it's previously scored time, he flashes word 10 the oper- ator and the time is corrected. Like wise if there is any sudden change or if. for instance, by an abrupt stop Mir. Joffs wishes to impress some particular scene by q complete stop, he presses another electric button with his foot; light flashes on each musicians music stand and he gets the cue instantly.
 hoe ha taken in arranging the music score for a pie ture so that there will be TO mo- tirnahle breaks and so that nothing will occur which will jar on the ears Of the audience. The whole must be so worked in that if will blend into one continuous rhythm of music. changing sometimes in ten seconds from quick martial airs to plaintive love themes. 10 stacca'o movements and to all other tempos without a break.
 When this Is properly done the audience is not aware. consciously, of Hn orchestra's part in their en- 'crtainmcnt hut the musical effect really is being suh-Consciously regis tered and adds to the whole enjoy menr
 During a weeks showing of pie 1 lures at the Capitol, for instance, i Mir. Jcffs and his associates play i approximately 800 selection or parts Of them and this entails an immense lot Of detail, for with 2 ten piece orchestra it means 5000 individual narts must be laid out. When these are laid out and each musician mas his part. MT Jeffs gets them all together and explains tho nature or tho pieces to be played. and then comes the rehearsal and f 1t is un- reuallv difficult four or five hours of practice sometimes are neened.
 As Mir. Jaffs concluded his pre- lirninarv "cueng" Of this feature picture he paused 10 reflect ana ID reply to question admitted that one must love his work all rlGhl' to 20 to such pains especially when it entails possibly If hours work each day. Yet that is what is colhe on in every big first class movie house in the country Concluding his exclamation of "cueing," MT. Jetfs again impressed the necessity o' nresorvjng an absolute harmony be- tween music and picture. There are several things that must be re- liriously observed" he said, 'The music cannot be allowed to drag. l, must not conflict In theme with the scene being presented and It must attain that happy medium whereby
 it weaves it's way automatically into
 the general theme and becomes, in
 fact. a part Of the picture and not
 in itself an additional thing