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Friday, August 8 | Elk's Club | Pre-glow - 16mm program - Evening All films are silent in this session, accompanied by Avery Tunningley on the 1933 Möller classical organ. 7:00pm THE LITTLE WILD GIRL (Hercules, 1928) SILENT Director: F.S. Mattison Starring: Lila Lee, Cullen Landis, Frank Merrill, Sheldon Lewis, Boris Karloff Silent, accompanied by Avery Tunningley. A Northwoods drama starring Lila Lee as a girl who is rescued from a forrest fire in which her father perishes. She is taken to New York where she becomes a Broadway star and eventually finds herself involved in a murder in which she is the chief suspect. The movie's primary claim to fame today is that the cast includes a relatively youthful Boris Karloff as one of the villains. Rarely seen since its original release, James Cozart of the Library of Congress says THE LITTLE WILD GIRL is "A nice little B" in which "the story moves." 8:00 pm VACATION WAVES (Hollywood, 1928) Starring: Edward Everett Horton, Duane Thompson Length: 20 minutes 8:45 pm COMEDY SHORT (TBA) 9:05pm ROMANCE OF THE UNDERWORLD (Fox, 1928) SILENT Director: Irving Cummings Starring: Mary Astor, John Boles, Robert Elliott, Ben Bard, Oscar Apfel Silent, accompanied by Avery Tunningley. Originally shown at the Capitol February 3, 1929. From The New York Times review by Mordaunt Hall, January 7, 1929: "A delightfully nonchalant crook picture... blessed with subtlety and good humor. Whether [director Irving Cummings] is dealing with scenes in the crooks' hangout or a more wholesome side of life, he gives to his work a charming imaginative quality that inveigles the attention."

Saturday, August 9 | Session #1 (morning) The remaining films are all in 35mm, shown at the Capitol Theatre; silents accompanied on the Capitol's 1928 original installation Möller theatre organ. 9:45 am THE COHENS & KELLYS IN SCOTLAND (Universal, 1930) Director: Wm. James Craft Starring: George Sidney, Charlie Murray Length: 84 minutes Originally shown at the Capitol April 2-3, 1930. From the New York Times review by Mordaunt Hall, March 10, 1930: "Not since the presentation several years ago of the film version of 'Charley's Aunt' has the Colony been as merry as it was yesterday afternoon. The cause of the mirth was the audible picture, 'The Cohens and Kellys in Scotland,' which, not withstanding its execrable punning and its boisterous form of humor, is perhaps the best of the series of adventures of these bickering families." 11:15 am Intermission 11:30 am THE SOILERS (Roach, 1932) Starring Thelma Todd, ZaSu Pitts Length: 20 minutes 11:50 am TESS OF THE STORM COUNTRY (Fox, 1932) Director: Alfred Santell Starring: Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell, Dudley Digges Length: 80 mins Originally shown at the Capitol December 29-31, 1932. Tess is the daughter of a squatter, and wealthy landowner Elias Graves is trying to get rid of them and the other squatter families. Tess is equally determined to make sure they all stay and Graves' son Frederick is on her side. When Frederick's sister Teola becomes pregnant out of wedlock, Tess protects her by claiming the child as her own. 1:15 pm LUNCH BREAK

Session #2 (afternoon) 2:10 pm TAL HENRY'S NORTH CAROLINIANS (WB, 1929) Vitaphone #732. (10 min.) 2:20 pm THE VAGABOND KING (Paramount, 1930) Director: Ludwig Berger Starring: Dennis King, Jeanette MacDonald, O.P. Heggie, Lillian Roth, Warner Oland Length: 104 minutes Originally shown at the Capitol May 20-22, 1930. Restored Technicolor print from UCLA. From JeanetteandNelson.net: "Seeing the restored Vagabond King elevates it from an historical curiosity to a viscerally exciting film. 4:20 pm Intermission 4:40 pm FAST COMPANIONS (Universal, 1932) Director: Kurt Neumann Starring: Tom Brown, Maureen O'Sullivan, Mickey Rooney, James Gleason, Andy Devine Length: 71 minutes Originally shown at the Capitol August 20, 1932. Photoplay review, June 1932: "All the favorite movie ingredients have been mixed together so deftly that you'll be thrilled every moment. Mickey Rooney, an eight-year-old (formerly known as Mickey McGuire) is the real surprise, and Tom Brown and James Gleason are a great pair. It's a racing story, with the same old characters—the jockey who throws the race and the slick racetrack manipulator. But packed with excitement and fun." 6:00 pm Dinner Break

Session #3 (evening) Silent film accompaniment by Avery Tunningley 7:30 pm TWINKLE, TWINKLE (WB, 1928) Starring: Joe E. Brown Length: 10 minutes Joe E. Brown stars in this Vitaphone Short, #505 7:45 pm OH! WHAT A KNIGHT! (Universal, 1928) Length: 7 minutes Disney cartoon with Oswald the Lucky Rabbit 7:55 pm TRUE TO THE NAVY (Paramount, 1930) SILENT VERSION Starring: Clara Bow, Fredric March Length: 65 minutes Originally shown at the Capitol June 8-9, 1930. A California soda shop girl has a lot of sailor boyfriends, but her heart belongs to a womanizing free-spirited gunner. 9:05 pm Intermission 9:25 pm ANGEL CAKE (WB, 1931) Starring: Claire Trevor, Cy Landry, The Foursome Length: 20 minutes Vitaphone shorts #1179-1180. 9:45 pm DOUBLE DOOR (Paramount, 1934) Director: Charles Vidor Originally shown at the Capitol May 29-30, 1934. From The New York Times review, May 5, 1934: "The Van Brett mansion, which is the chill setting for 'Double Door,' has lost none of its genteel horror in the process of transportation to the screen of the Paramount. With Mary Morris as its grim and fish-eyed mistress, the brownstone house of Fifth Avenue contains its old complement of frightened occupants, murderous shadows, closed shutters and-this last in a whisper—a secret chamber. It, and the events for which it provides a setting, make up the sort of cooling antidote an earnest filmgoer needs when the weather gets warm."

Sunday, August 10 | Session #4 (morning) Silent film accompaniment by Bernie Anderson 9:45 am BEN BERNIE & HIS ORCHESTRA (WB, 1930) Length: 10 minutes Vitaphone #958 10:00 am LET'S GO NATIVE (Paramount, 1930) Director: Leo McCarey Starring: Jack Oakie, Jeanette MacDonald, Skeets Gallagher, Kay Francis, James Hall Originally shown at the Capitol November 7-8, 1930. From Richard Barrios' history of early talkie musicals, A Song in the Dark (Oxford University Press, 1995): "...one of the brighter musical comedies of 1930 to come from Paramount or anywhere else.... A fast and often funny ensemble piece, it contained good songs and almost no sense whatsoever.... It was sheer malarkey, played with bounce and directed by Leo McCarey with some of the affinity toward musical anarchy he later brought to Duck Soup." (New print from Universal.) 11:20 am Intermission 11:35 am WHY BABIES LEAVE HOME SILENT (Weiss Bros., 1928) Starring: Ben Turpin Length: 20 minutes 11:55 am THE SPIELER (Pathe, 1928) SILENT Director: Tay Garnett Starring: Alan Hale, Renee Adoree, Clyde Cook, Fred Kohler Originally shown at the Capitol August 5-7, 1929. Photoplay review, December 1928: "Here is carnival life 'as is' presented by Renee Adoree who really began her career as a circus child. No frills, no artificialities. Grim realism, crude comedy and the stark tragedy of the wagon shows. Keep your eye on Tay Garnett. He's a promising young director who knows his characterization. He has registered the carnival atmosphere and he makes you hungry for peanuts and pink lemonade. The story deals with a crooked spieler who goes straight when he falls in love with the lady who owns the show. He breaks the neck of one crook and the grip of others who try to steal control of the carnival. Alan Hale is an excellent spieler, Adoree is restrained and realistic as the show owner, and Fred Kohler gives a picture of brutality that will be hard to excel. Clyde Cook cops watches and walks a tightrope. There's lots of laughs with a dramatic punch. See it." 1:00 pm Lunch Break

Session #5 (afternoon) Silent film accompaniment by Dr. Philip C. Carli 2:00 pm MIND DOESN'T MATTER (Columbia, 1932) Starring: Shaw & Lee Length: 20 minutes A rare comedy short featuring vaudeville's Shaw & Lee. 2:20 pm SCREEN SNAPSHOTS (Columbia, c.1937) Length: 10 minutes "Hollywood 20 Years Ago" 2:45 pm JACK THEAKSTON'S SHORT SUBJECT FOLLIES Length: 40 minutes A cavalcade of shorts, trailers, and snipes. 3:45 pm Intermission 4:05 pm MOVIE NIGHT (Roach, 1929) SILENT Starring: Charley Chase Length: 20 minutes 4:25 pm THE SHAKEDOWN (Universal, 1929) SILENT Starring: James Murray, Barbara Kent Director: William Wyler Length: 70 minutes Originally shown at the Capitol June 23, 1929. The life of a less-than successful professional boxer changes when he takes in an orphan.