FILM MUSIC

New Zealand Listener, Volume 36, Issue 927, 17 May 1957, Page 30

FILM MUSIC

QUR recent article on "Music in the Dark" revived many memories of the silent days. A Wellington picture exhibitor who has been in the game a long time recently brought into "The Listener" office this souvenir programme, which commemorated _ the opening of the new King’s Theatre on Wednesday, March 16, 1910. It is printed in silk and on the reverse is the programme. We wish we could quote all ot it, but here to whet your appetite are a tew of the items; "‘To Save Her Soul’ -a strong and thrilling drama showing the masterful passion of a young clergyman for a pretty little choir singer; ‘All Through Tickling the Servant’-a series of comic situations brought about by frisky James the butler tickling Eliza Jane; ‘The Engineer's Daughter’-the enthralling story of the misplaced affection of an engineer’s daughter out West, enacted amongst beautiful scenery." The Entr’acte played in the interval was the piece "Fighting Hope."

glimpse of its fixed blue eye) is literally a huge success, its malevolent appear‘ances being so skilfully intercut with real whaling shots that it is sometimes impossible to distinguish true from false. I have so often been emotionally let down by the careless use of models that I found it a lively source of pleasure to realise afterwards how excellently the technicians had played their part, What I 'shall remember longest, however, are not the tricks, or the excellent colour, or the fortissimo passages, but the scalptingling suspense as the boats await the explosive breaching of the whale when nothing breaks the silence but the whirring of the seabirds’ wings.