Show Motion Pictures I IAre Are Soundless Sonatas' Sonatas Motion pictures would deserve a place among the arts says Robert M. M I. I Haas if It It were only for their close relation to music one of the greatest and oldest of all arts crts Those who scoff at the motion picture picture picture pic pic- ture have been accustomed for lor years to applaud the clever way a theme knits together the unrelated crescendo and diminuendo portions of a musical composition how hov a smashing bit of ot melody Is pulled Into the whole by a return to the them possibly interpreted by a single Instrument What do you find In motion pictures pictures pic plc- tures turfs A wonderfully colorful scene of or life In a bl big city then a cu cutback to the mother and father lonely for their girl around the om familY fire fue- e- e side Theme again Then theres there's the old musical trick I of Jf staccato staccato of of accenting the action strongly and then coming to a n. dead stop continuing on ah an entirely new tack How effectively this is used in motion pictures You'll recall in Sentimental Sentimental Sen Tommy where Tommy Is h leading ading emotions are worked up almost to the point of tears tears and and then she walks out of or the scene Precisely Precisely Precisely Pre Pre- as the clever composer ets bets musical musical mu mu- emphasis Tempo You find It in to Madame Butterfly In the slow musical measure measure measure meas meas- ure of the pathetic scenes the light quick touch of comedy the deep heavy toll 1011 as the trag tragedy y piles up and In a likE Bought Dought and Paid For you'll yeull ull f find ird w illiam lliam De Mille for tor Instance utilizing his musical u training The tempo of or the strong dramatic sequence se sequence sequence se- se quence between husband and wife wile Is far different than that of the comedy com- com edy relief reller furnished by Walter Valter HIers You will still think of or the motion picture as inartistic think of the next photoplay you visit as a n. soundless I sonata and I think you'll be better I able to understand how really artistic they are when compared with their close blood brother music I Mr Haas is particularly qualified to draw such an y as Defore Detore be becoming becoming be- be coming an art director he was a successful successful suc suc- violinist no lie has designed ned sets for fur such successful Paramount pictures plc- plc tures as The Little Minister Dr Jekyll and Mr Mr- Hyde A Prince There W Was Vas s Forever F rever The Proxy Daddy and Sentimental Tommy Ti Jack D Donovan novan Juvenile leAd l d In Allen I Holubar's production of The Soul Seeker Seek Seek- er has Just returned from Mexican waI waters wa- wa this where v First ere S some V Important scenes for I filmed National production were |