:42:01
but we had to go back and reshoot
some of my scenes because of cleavage,
:42:05
including the cadenza
in the French opera."
:42:07
Shots of Susanna in the unmasking
also required changes for Mr Breen.
:42:13
The script had been submitted to
the Production Code office for approval,
:42:17
and passed with specific instruction that
the strangling of prima donna Biancarolli,
:42:22
played here by Jane Farrar,
not be shown in detail.
:42:25
The crashing of the chandelier
later in the film also caused concern.
:42:29
"We suggest you consult
your distribution department."
:42:32
"It might be well to consider cutting the
episode down to avoid an adverse effect
:42:37
on audiences viewing
the picture in a theatre."
:42:42
Phantom's music was composed
and arranged by Edward Ward.
:42:45
Susanna Foster says that Ward
was an Italian war orphan, born at sea.
:42:50
ASCAP records state that he was born in
St Louis, Missouri, on April 2 or 3, 1896.
:42:56
He was educated at the
Beethoven School of Music in St Louis,
:42:59
and he was a songwriter
whose opus includes
:43:02
"Who Takes Care
of the Caretaker's Daughter?"
:43:05
and, in a possible attempt
to outgun Irving Berlin,
:43:08
Ward wrote "Always and Always".
:43:11
Ward worked in musical theatre
in New York and was an alcoholic.
:43:14
Miss Foster says he ghost-wrote
for well-known names
:43:17
who she would rather not mention, often
giving them a tune for the price of a drink.
:43:21
His first Hollywood credit is for a song
in 1928's The Woman Disputed.
:43:26
He appeared on camera in the 1929
vaudeville review The Show of Shows,
:43:30
and wrote incidental music for Warner
Brothers operettas like Song of the Flame.
:43:35
He worked around smaller studios,
primarily Universal,
:43:38
where he wrote a wonderful score
for The Mystery of Edwin Drood
:43:41
and conducted Heinz Roemheld's score
for Dracula's Daughter.
:43:45
He provided uncredited cues to Mark
of the Vampire and The Devil-Doll,
:43:49
spending the late '30s
shuttling between MGM and Universal.
:43:53
Susanna says he had worked with George
Waggner in musical theatre in New York.
:43:58
Ward provided music for all of Waggner's
Universal pictures after Phantom.