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...soundtrack, without background music, is parodic, too. But as in the great silents, the story has more than enough rhythm to move the picture. And Clair has deftly underscored the rhythm with severe, clear cutting...
...difficult for U.S. moviegoers, even those who know enough French, to savor all these flavors. In order to insure wide U.S. distribution of the film, RKO has added to the soundtrack an English narration by Maurice Chevalier. This device, though useful, is about as welcome as having program notes read aloud during a Chopin nocturne...
...manuscript in the British Museum by Conductor Malcolm Holmes. Other little-known works brought to light in the past have been "The Blessed Damosel" and "Variation on 'Mary Had a Little Lamb,'" the last-named written especially for the Orchestra. But despite its penchant for straying off the beaten soundtrack, the Sodality has developed a reputation for artistic presentations, and is now safely removed from the danger it was up against in 1832. In that year, the entire membership was concentrated in one flute player, a man who played alone with only tradition to direct him. The success...
...apart from music by real live people, I can recommend the soundtrack of "Syncopation" at the RKO Boston, which has the finest jazz recorded on it of any movie I can remember, including "Second Chorus" and every picture featuring a name band. It's encouraging to hear Bunny Berigan, who does nearly all of the trumpet work, in top form again...
...great huge blaze of speaker-shattering noise. All this could have been avoided with a little preparation. But the sloppiness did not end here. The cut-offs at the ends of records are abominably handled, coming often in the middle of a phrase (the effect is as though the soundtrack has been chopped off with an axe), while on at least three sides there is an entire half-inch of waste space at the beginning, during which the needle scrape-scrapes around, and the listener forgets what was happening at the end of the last side. All this without mentioning...