IN THE PUBLIC MIND.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 200, 24 August 1929, Page 8

IN THE PUBLIC MIND.

PICTURE THEATRE MUSIC

A PLEA FOR ORCHESTRAS

(To the Editor.)

It is time that some of our' music-lovin-» public took up the ousting of orchestras from our picture theatres. Since the advent of the "talkies" one by one the orchestras, in our city theatres are being dispensed with. Admittedly some of the music which comes through the screen is very good indeed, but after afl it i s little, if anything, better than gramophone music; and those who require entertainment of this nature, if they are without, a gramophone in the home, have only to walk down Queen Street, where they will have their tastes in this direction generously catered for bv the various gramophone shops. A visit to a ctrtain iheatre affords a good demonstration of the difference between "real" music and "screen" music, and altli<;:!-.Ii the original orchestra h very much deplete;! t'.ie few reinaininj musicians render a programme which is "delightfully refreshing after the purely mechanical music we have been hearing. Could not something be done to retain the services of an orchestra in at least ouc of our Queen Stre°t theatres ? HOPEFUL."