Liberty Hall Celebrates Centennial Anniversary
To commemorate 100 years of movies, Liberty Hall will host a screening of "Phantom of the Opera" with live piano accompaniment, reviving its role as an opera house.
Liberty Hall initially opened as a movie theater in the 1924-1925 season, according to documentation. This year, it launched a series to mark its centennial, showcasing a different 1925 silent movie each month.
- The October selection is "Phantom of the Opera" (1925), directed by Rupert Julian and starring Lon Chaney and Mary Philbin.
The black-and-white horror film will be made all the more eerie by Liberty Hall’s history as the Bowersock Opera House.
According to the Spencer Research Library, Bowersock renovated the building in 1882 before it burned down in an electrical fire in 1911.
Author's summary: Liberty Hall celebrates 100 years with a special screening.