2nd Saturday Silent Summer Shorts with Three Comediennes

The Second Saturday Silent Series invites you to can experience movies like they did a hundred years ago with authentic accompaniment on a vintage theatre pipe organ! The movie accompaniment will be played by Bill Rowland, and walk-in music by Michael Huffman on the Circle Cinema's original 1928 instrument.

All attendees have a chance to win tickets to see Tulsa Spotlight Theatre’s longest running play “The Drunkard and the Olio” at every 2nd Saturday screening!

Tickets just $8 adults, $5 kids, with support from the American Theatre Organ Society Sooner State Chapter, Tulsa Spotlight Theater, and Arts Alliance Tulsa.

This month, we've got three short silents starring some of the finest comediennes of the era! See "A Hash House Fraud" starring Louise Fazenda from 1915, next will be "Her First Flame" featuring Gale Henry (1920) and lastly "What Happened to Rosa" with Mabel Normand also from 1920.

"A Hash House Fraud" 13min: A swindle in a tiny downtown restaurant leads to a classic Keystone Kops finale. One and all have an easy time with the pretty and flirtatious cashier.

"Her First Flame" 20min: It is the year 1950; women have taken over men's jobs and have become the aggressors in romantic situations. Lizzie Hap stuffs the ballot box, defeats her opponent, Minnie Fish, and is thereby elected Fire Chief of the all female fire department, and succeeds in winning the hand of her fair loved one, Willie Wart.

"What Happened to Rosa" 54min: A fortune teller tells a store clerk with a romantic disposition that she was a Spanish noblewoman in an earlier life. The girl begins to live the part of the Spanish noblewoman and romance and comedy ensue.