College and local theater present free screening of classic film Loyola College in Maryland's Humanities Symposium and Belvedere Square's Senator Theatre will present a free screening of the 1928 film Speedy on Monday, Feb. 19 at 7:30 p.m. The movie, comedian Harold Lloyd's last silent film, will be accompanied by live music by the Alloy Orchestra, a three-member ensemble from Boston. The film follows recently unemployed soda jerk Speedy as he gets a new job driving baseball legend Babe Ruth to Yankee Stadium and later takes a stand when a new railroad threatens to wipe out the city's last horse-drawn trolley, operated by his girlfriend's grandfather. Throughout the screening, the Alloy Orchestra, which specializes in providing music for silent films, will create a soundtrack using drums, synthesizers, musical saws and other instruments. "The Senator has a 900 seat capacity, but it could well sell out," says Daniel Schlapbach, Fine Arts co-coordinator of the event. For this reason, the doors will open at 6:45 p.m. To encourage Loyola students to attend the screening, event organizers have arranged for free shuttles to run from the College's Jenkins Lot to the Senator from 6:30 - 7:30 p.m. and to run return trips from 8:30 - 9:45 p.m. The Speedy screening is part of the "Urban Spaces, Urban Voices," the College's 2007 Humanities Symposium. Like other Symposium events, it considers the difficulties cities and their residents face when deciding to hold on to their historic pasts or embrace the need for advancement. For more information on "Urban Spaces, Urban Voices," please visit the Humanities Symposium web site. |