His assistant, I presume his daughter, played "In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree" hour after hour, while the great film was rolling by.

Many old soldiers were coming to see it.

I asked the assistant why she did not play and sing the Battle Hymn.

She said they "just couldn't find it." Are the distributors willing to send out a musician with each film?
Many of the Springfield producers are quite able and enterprising, but to ask for music with photoplays is like asking the man at the news stand to write an editorial while he sells you the paper.

The picture with a great orchestra in a far-off metropolitan Opera House, may be classed by fanatic partisanship with Grand Opera.