Performances
This season, while we have been unable to make alternative arrangements to present theatre organ concerts, we carry on with our silent film programming!
Rest assured, the concerts will be back! We appreciate your patience while we strive to resolve the issues and hope it will be soon when we can once again announce wonderful performances on the theatre organ in concert for your enjoyment. In the meantime, please join us for -
Silent films - the way they were meant to be heard!
Presenting silent film classics the way they were originally exhibited in the movie palaces of yesteryear, their musical scores played with live accompaniment by masters of this musical art.
The Doll - featuring Ossi Oswald
Getting Mary Married - starring Marion Davies
Spring 2020 - Date TBD
William O’Meara
The Doll (1919) and Getting Mary Married (1919)
We present a double bill - two from 1919 - featuring stars of the Silents - Ossi Oswald directed by Ernst Lubitsch and Marion Davies directed by Allan Dwan!
We lead off with Getting Mary Married starring Marion Davies and directed by Toronto born Hollywood success, Allan Dwan.
John Bussard - the prim - extremely prim on the social graces - step-father of Mary - mistress of her beloved and affectionate dog - bequeathes his fortune to her - if only she will live with his surviving brother and his family in Boston to mend her wayward ways due to the good influence of the Bussard family.
In particular, she forfeits the fortune if she marries within that year.
John Bussard - venal in business - all but living a double life - has cheated a widow of her life savings.
Complications ensue when the handsome and stock market savvy James Winthrop Jr. - the dashing Norman Kerry - Raoul in 1925's The Phantom of the Opera - takes a shine to the hapless and lonely Mary.
How will Mary follow her heart?
Help the deserving widow - she has given her word?
Marry the doting and loving James - and fail to keep her word to the widow?
Oh, what is a girl to do?
Screen time is 7:30 pm. Doors and the Box Office open at 7:00 pm.
Tickets at the Door are $20 (CASH ONLY).
Please bring cash to the box office to purchase tickets on screening night. We will not be able to process credit and debit card transactions at the Church.
Click here to purchase Advance Tickets Now - Just $17 on line!
Advance Tickets will NOT be mailed.
Advance Tickets will be held for Pick Up at the Box Office on the night of the Screening.
Please bring your receipt.
And now to our main feature of the double bill!
The Doll, directed by Ernst Lubitsch, from a screenplay by Hanns Kräly and Ernst Lubitsch, is derived from two short stories by E.T.A. Hoffmann that were adapted for the stage previously in Jacques Offenbach’s final opera, premiering in 1881, The Tales of Hoffmann and a ballet, with music composed by Leo Délibes, that premiered in 1870, Coppélia.
The story is a romantic comedy told as a fairy tale.
The bachelor Baron von Chanterelle, as his end approaches, reaches out to his nearest male heir, Lancelot, to succeed him - if only his nephew will marry.
Lancelot is sadly for the Baron a callow youth who takes refuge in a monastery rather than succumb to the pursuit of the 40 maidens who pursue him upon his uncle's announcement that he is the most eligible bachelor in town!
Lancelot’s way out may be to fool his uncle by marrying a mechanical doll instead of a real woman - getting what uncle and nephew both seem to want.
The monks send him to the doll maker, Hilarius, who has just fashioned his newest creation - a life-like doll resembling his own daughter Ossi - portrayed by the German Mary Pickford - Ossi Oswalda.
As Lancelot departs with his doll, is she just a doll? - or a living doll? - a real live girl?
Rom-Coms are forever!
We are in good hands from the first scene when none other than Ernst Lubitsch, adding another screen credit to his career as an actor, assembles the first set from the contents of a toy box.
William O’Meara returns for this TTOS silent screening performing his live score at the console of the Casavant 3 (manual) / 33 (rank) pipe organ that was new in 1929 - installed at the Church at the conclusion of the silent movie era - just ten years after the premiere of The Doll!
We are presenting The Doll (1919) and Getting Mary Married (1919) in collaboration with The Toronto Silent Film Festival - which is generously providing the Film Notes in your Program.
Please click on this link - the Toronto Silent Film Festival - now Celebrating its 11th Year! - for more information.
Please note this screening is not at Casa Loma.
This TTOS screening of The Doll (1919) and Getting Mary Married (1919) will be presented at the Roncesvalles United Church - not at Casa Loma. The Roncesvalles United Church is located at 214 Wright Avenue - at the corner of Roncesvalles and Wright. Please click here for a map with directions to the Church - located just east of High Park. Street parking near to the Church is limited to free parking on the side streets and meter paid parking on Roncesvalles. The Roncesvalles United Church is nearest to the TTC Subway stop at Dundas West Station. This may not be within walking distance of the Church but you can transfer to a street car at the subway station. The 504A TTC King Streetcar stops on Roncesvalles near to the Church - southbound from the subway the streetcar stop is at High Park Blvd. - northbound from King the streetcar stop is at Fermanagh Avenue.
Screen time is 7:30 pm. Doors and the Box Office open at 7:00 pm.
Tickets at the Door are $20 (CASH ONLY).
Please bring cash to the box office to purchase tickets on screening night. We will not be able to process credit and debit card transactions at the Church.
Click here to purchase Advance Tickets Now - Just $17 on line!
Advance Tickets will NOT be mailed.
Advance Tickets will be held for Pick Up at the Box Office on the night of the Screening.
Please bring your receipt.
We present a double bill - two from 1919 - featuring stars of the Silents - Ossi Oswald directed by Ernst Lubitsch and Marion Davies directed by Allan Dwan!
We lead off with Getting Mary Married starring Marion Davies and directed by Toronto born Hollywood success, Allan Dwan.
John Bussard - the prim - extremely prim on the social graces - step-father of Mary - mistress of her beloved and affectionate dog - bequeathes his fortune to her - if only she will live with his surviving brother and his family in Boston to mend her wayward ways due to the good influence of the Bussard family.
In particular, she forfeits the fortune if she marries within that year.
John Bussard - venal in business - all but living a double life - has cheated a widow of her life savings.
Complications ensue when the handsome and stock market savvy James Winthrop Jr. - the dashing Norman Kerry - Raoul in 1925's The Phantom of the Opera - takes a shine to the hapless and lonely Mary.
How will Mary follow her heart?
Help the deserving widow - she has given her word?
Marry the doting and loving James - and fail to keep her word to the widow?
Oh, what is a girl to do?
Screen time is 7:30 pm. Doors and the Box Office open at 7:00 pm.
Tickets at the Door are $20 (CASH ONLY).
Please bring cash to the box office to purchase tickets on screening night. We will not be able to process credit and debit card transactions at the Church.
Click here to purchase Advance Tickets Now - Just $17 on line!
Advance Tickets will NOT be mailed.
Advance Tickets will be held for Pick Up at the Box Office on the night of the Screening.
Please bring your receipt.
And now to our main feature of the double bill!
The Doll, directed by Ernst Lubitsch, from a screenplay by Hanns Kräly and Ernst Lubitsch, is derived from two short stories by E.T.A. Hoffmann that were adapted for the stage previously in Jacques Offenbach’s final opera, premiering in 1881, The Tales of Hoffmann and a ballet, with music composed by Leo Délibes, that premiered in 1870, Coppélia.
The story is a romantic comedy told as a fairy tale.
The bachelor Baron von Chanterelle, as his end approaches, reaches out to his nearest male heir, Lancelot, to succeed him - if only his nephew will marry.
Lancelot is sadly for the Baron a callow youth who takes refuge in a monastery rather than succumb to the pursuit of the 40 maidens who pursue him upon his uncle's announcement that he is the most eligible bachelor in town!
Lancelot’s way out may be to fool his uncle by marrying a mechanical doll instead of a real woman - getting what uncle and nephew both seem to want.
The monks send him to the doll maker, Hilarius, who has just fashioned his newest creation - a life-like doll resembling his own daughter Ossi - portrayed by the German Mary Pickford - Ossi Oswalda.
As Lancelot departs with his doll, is she just a doll? - or a living doll? - a real live girl?
Rom-Coms are forever!
We are in good hands from the first scene when none other than Ernst Lubitsch, adding another screen credit to his career as an actor, assembles the first set from the contents of a toy box.
William O’Meara returns for this TTOS silent screening performing his live score at the console of the Casavant 3 (manual) / 33 (rank) pipe organ that was new in 1929 - installed at the Church at the conclusion of the silent movie era - just ten years after the premiere of The Doll!
We are presenting The Doll (1919) and Getting Mary Married (1919) in collaboration with The Toronto Silent Film Festival - which is generously providing the Film Notes in your Program.
Please click on this link - the Toronto Silent Film Festival - now Celebrating its 11th Year! - for more information.
Please note this screening is not at Casa Loma.
This TTOS screening of The Doll (1919) and Getting Mary Married (1919) will be presented at the Roncesvalles United Church - not at Casa Loma. The Roncesvalles United Church is located at 214 Wright Avenue - at the corner of Roncesvalles and Wright. Please click here for a map with directions to the Church - located just east of High Park. Street parking near to the Church is limited to free parking on the side streets and meter paid parking on Roncesvalles. The Roncesvalles United Church is nearest to the TTC Subway stop at Dundas West Station. This may not be within walking distance of the Church but you can transfer to a street car at the subway station. The 504A TTC King Streetcar stops on Roncesvalles near to the Church - southbound from the subway the streetcar stop is at High Park Blvd. - northbound from King the streetcar stop is at Fermanagh Avenue.
Screen time is 7:30 pm. Doors and the Box Office open at 7:00 pm.
Tickets at the Door are $20 (CASH ONLY).
Please bring cash to the box office to purchase tickets on screening night. We will not be able to process credit and debit card transactions at the Church.
Click here to purchase Advance Tickets Now - Just $17 on line!
Advance Tickets will NOT be mailed.
Advance Tickets will be held for Pick Up at the Box Office on the night of the Screening.
Please bring your receipt.
Please revisit our web site for updates regarding the rescheduled screening date.