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Show FII ORGAN Gill ARTISTIC- TRYDUT Last Word in Instruments Installed at Paramount-Empress Paramount-Empress Theater. Pierht and sound, vision and hearing, widely divergent forms of vibration are inevitably and inseparably connected and related in the , normal mind. As life is a manifestation of emotions, so has the stage developed into an institution for tho presentation of varying phases o( these emotions, and, to paraphrase the greatest dramatists "hold th mirror up to nature." Thus music becomes a necessity for photoplay music that accords with and suggests both the general theme and the Incidents of the story music that is In harmony with the shifting scenes of the complex incidents that weave themselves into a tale worth telling. And so almost every theater and every picture house has its music sometimes a mechanical music box, sometimes a piano, better than these an orchestra. -best of all an orchestra and a suitable organ. This is but preliminary to the statement state-ment that the Paramount-Empress yesterday yes-terday presented for a few invited music mu-sic lovers, in initial demonstration, its just-irstalled eighty-three-stop .Wurlitzer Hope-Jones unit orchestra, organ. It appears ap-pears to be the "last word" in modern ortjan building, for it would require a doubly-inspired Imagination to conceive of a eoimd appropriate to the interpretation interpre-tation of a drama that the marvelous instrument does pot furnish, as by magic, at touch of stop and key. Kverythlng that a complete symphony orchestra car. furnish and a great many things beyond J.ho symphony's capacity lies within the range and power of this instrument. One may have all the, weird sound effects of a midday carnival in a crowded oriental city, followed by elfin bugle calls and fairy bells in solitary mountain glades, and in a twinkling pass to the clamor, strife and turmoil of some congested metropolis with clanging fire bells and honking horns. Also, as occasion occa-sion demands, one may have the "real music" the kind written for music's sake. - Professor JOdward P. Kimball, the theater's thea-ter's chief organist, gave the demonstration demonstra-tion of some of the new instrument's wonderful powers. it v:ib purchased through thG Consolidated Music company. |