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Topic: Sol Ho'opi'i on film set |
Andy Volk
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Posted 7 Mar 2022 10:05 am |
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I've never seen this pic before. Posted on FB with text by Samuel Palmer. I dimly recall reading somewhere that when Mary Pickford needed to cry, she asked for Sol to play. Am I remembering correctly? Anyone know the source for that story? Text below from Sam ....
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If the musicians are strumming a lively, happy tune "then no matter how morning-after an artist may be feeling, he can stand before the camera and smile and smile and smile." "Doris Kenyon and Percy Marmont are emoting this year to the wailing strains of a steel stringed guitar played by a real Hawaiian, Sol Hoppi." You'll see his name spelled Sol Hoopii; correct spelling, Sol Hoʻopiʻi. He was one of the most famous original Hawaiian steel guitarists, also playing ukulele.
"We are all enjoying this music," said Miss Kenyon. "It is so different from the usual thing." Percy Marmont added, "The lulls and long waits between scenes are nicely bridged with the pleasant playing of these boys. Then during action they fill the great gap in pictures - the lack of the audience which one has on the stage to give back their reaction to your interpretation of a character."
Kenyon and Marmont were working on a movie that they were, at the time of their interview, referring to as Dr. Nye. It was the 1924 screen adaptation of the Joseph C. Lincoln novel Doctor Nye of North Ostable.
The film, directed by Lambert Hillyer, would be retitled Idle Tongues. The picture, they said, had nothing to do with Hawaii. Kenyon said that the musicians had studied the script and tried to gear the music to the scenes.” |
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Glenn Wilde
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Posted 8 Mar 2022 12:29 am
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| Neat picture, pre-national Sol. It would be nice to have a comprehensive book about him but i guess its kinda late for that, so much time has passed. |
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Anthony Lis
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South Dakota, USA
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Posted 10 Mar 2022 11:57 am
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| Glenn Wilde wrote: |
| Neat picture, pre-national Sol. It would be nice to have a comprehensive book about him but i guess its kinda late for that, so much time has passed. |
No, not at all too late; it just takes someone with the genuine interest (and the time) to tackle a Sol Hoopii biography. In some ways, the more years distant we are from a figure the better—some of the in-their-lifetime "hype" has fallen by the wayside by the time we get a century or so beyond the subject's career (if the hype was not merited; in Hoopii's case, of course, the hype was most-certainly deserved). |
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Anthony Lis
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South Dakota, USA
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Posted 10 Mar 2022 11:58 am
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| Glenn Wilde wrote: |
| Neat picture, pre-national Sol. It would be nice to have a comprehensive book about him but i guess its kinda late for that, so much time has passed. |
No, not at all too late; it just takes someone with the genuine interest (and the time) to tackle a Sol Hoopii biography. In some ways, the more years distant we are from a figure the better—some of the in-their-lifetime "hype" has fallen by the wayside by the time we get a century or so beyond the subject's career (if the hype was not merited; in Hoppi's case, of course, the hype was most-certainly deserved). |
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