Liberty Hall Celebrates Centennial Anniversary
To commemorate 100 years of movies at Liberty Hall, a special screening of "Phantom of the Opera" with live piano accompaniment will be held, reviving the building's history as an opera house.
The building first opened as a movie theater in the 1924-1925 season, according to documentation. Earlier this year, Liberty Hall launched a series to mark its centennial, screening a different 1925 silent movie each month.
The selection for October is "Phantom of the Opera" (1925), directed by Rupert Julian and starring Lon Chaney and Mary Philbin. The film's eerie atmosphere will be enhanced by Liberty Hall's past as the Bowersock Opera House.
According to the Spencer Research Library, which houses the opera house's program collection, 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.