LOS ANGELES AGO CHAPTER INVITES ATOE'rs TO SILENT COMEDY FEATURE SCREENING Dec. 2. Hollywood, Cal. - - - - side of the store building. Of course, The famous Hollywood High Harold succeeds, but not before School, sometimes known as the some hair-raising moments during "incubator of stars'\ was the scene his ascent which consumes almost of a novel musical event tonight as half the footage. This sort of com organist Gaylord Carter cued a si edy-melodrama is right up Gaylord's lent comedy feature on a "straight" alley, even though the Skinner was organ. lacking the sound effects which The film was Harold Lloyd's Sa silent movies need. To compensate, / ety Last, which LA chapter chair he hauled in a hand-operated siren man Dick Simonton borrowed from to cue the careening chase scene Lloyd for the chapter's contribution through 1923 Los Angeles traffic to a program staged by the LA ( how those model T's dodged!). American Guild of Organists (AGO) But in the midst of the sequence chapter. The AGO chapter invited the siren broke down with a dis GAYLORD CARTER - Drawknobs?? Fat diapasons the ATOEr's to the show, which sonant descrescendo wail which and a fire siren that wouldn't . was held in the school auditorium. trailed off to embarrassed silence. About 350 AGOers and ATOErs The house is equipped with a 3-39 Carter found the skinner to his attended. Although such co-op con E.M. Skinner concert organ, install liking for playing this type of film certs are rare in LA, there has been ed in the mid- '20s and kept in good but stated, "I don't know what I'd a friendly spirit of cooperation bet playing condition. have done if there were love scenes ween the two chapters since they - - no Tibia - - not even a gooey Stop The event was arranged between staged a joint pop concert at the ped Flute on Tremolo. There's just the AGO chapter dean, Halstead Wiltern theatre when their national no way of making it sound like a McCormac, and ATOE chapter vice conventions overlapped in 1962. chairman, Ray Bonner, the latter theatre organ. It's another breed of standing in for recuperating chair cat." -G. Bandini man Dick Simonton. For the movie, vereran organist Carter tackled the Skinner just as SOONER STATE ATOE CHAPTER IS OFF though it had been a theatre organ, with sometimes amusing results. Be AND RUNNING . . . Bl fore the film started Gaylord played The newly formed Sooner State both classical and pop selections to Chapter held its first concert on give his audience the "feel" of the November 8, at the Christian Cru instrument. It must be stated that sade in Tulsa, where the ]ate Jim something is lost in translation Orcutt made his Organ of the Month when Love is Blue is heard played recordings. For our first effort we on big Diapasons, sharp reeds and were privileged to have the services complex Mixtures, with little or no of Lyn Larsen, who at the age of tremulant. 23 is what we believe to be one of The Skinner was more effective the finest theatre organists alive. during the film because it is an action movie, with lots of suspense, Playing to a crowd of about 300, comedy and violent movement. For ( we were hampered by other eve those who missed it during the 1968 nts occuring the same night) Lyn Larsen Discusses his music with the appreciative ATOE convention, Safety Last is the got a warm response as he explored audience during recent program. story of an impoverished young the registrations available on the of his program leaning heavily on department store clerk who sees a 3/ 10 Robert Morton. His musical the standards which sound best on chance to earn $1000 (so he can get sty le and his personality made a the theatre organ and are sure to married! ) if he can attract a crowd hit with his audience, and sensing meet with the approval of the older to the store where he works. ·He this, Lyn has promised us that he organ fans who remember how it does so by unmittingly becoming a will be back next year. was "in the good old days". ''human fly" and climbing the out- Mr. Larsen played the first half (Continued on Page 38)
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