OC - DS Lost World

Duck Soup Cinema featuring

The Lost World starring Wallace Beery

FILM PROVIDED

BASED UPON

through George Eastman the novel by House film archive Arthur Conan Doyle

SCREENPLAY BY

Marion Fairfax

DIRECTED BY

Harry O. Hoyt

CAST (1925) Miss Bessie Love.......................... Paula White Mr. Lewis Stone .................... Sir John Roxton Mr. Wallace Beery.......... Professor Challenger Mr. Lloyd Hughes.......................... Ed Malone Miss Alma Bennett...........Gladys Hungerford Mr. Arthur Hoyt.............Professor Summerlee Miss Margaret McWade........ Mrs. Challenger

Mr. Bull Montana............................. Ape-man Mr. Finch Smiles...................................Austin Mr. Jules Cowles..................................Zambo Mr. George Bunny...................Colin McArdle Mr. Charles Wellsley................ Major Hibbard Jocko the Monkey..........................as Himself Arthur Conan Doyle.......................as Himself

GRAND BARTON ORGAN

HOSTED BY

Dennis James

Joe Thompson

VAUDEVILLE ACTS

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PROGRAM Vaudeville Acts INTERMISSION Door Prizes The Lost World (1925) WALLACE BEERY In 1902, 16-year-old Wallace Beery joined the Ringling Brothers Circus as an assistant to the elephant trainer. He left two years later after a leopard clawed his arm. Beery next went to New York, where he found work in musical variety shows.

He became a leading man in musicals and appeared on Broadway and in traveling stock companies. In 1913 he headed for Hollywood, where he would get his start as the hulking Swedish maid in the Sweedie comedy series for Essanay. In 1915 he would work with young ingĂŠnue Gloria Swanson in Sweedie Goes to College (1915). A year later they would marry and be wildly unhappy together.

The marriage dissolved when Beery could not control his drinking and Gloria got tired of his abuse. Beery finished with the Sweedie series and worked as the heavy in a number of films. Starting with Patria (1917), he would play the beastly Hun in a number of films. In the 1920s he would be seen in a number of adventures, including The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921), Robin Hood (1922), The Sea Hawk (1924) and The Pony Express (1925). He would also play the part of Poole in So Big (1924), which was based on the bestselling book of the same name by Edna Ferber. Paramount began to move Beery back into comedies with Behind the Front (1926). When sound came, Beery was one of the victims of the wholesale studio purge. He had a voice that would record well, but his speech was slow and his tone

was a deep, folksy, down home-type.

While not the handsome hero image, MGM executive Irving Thalberg saw something in Beery and hired him for the studio. Thalberg cast Beery in The Big House (1930), which was a big hit and got Beery an Academy Award nomination.

However, Beery would become almost a household word with the release of the sentimental Min and Bill (1930), which would be one of 1930’s top money makers.

The next year Beery would win the Oscar for Best Actor in The Champ (1931/I). He would be forever remembered as Long John Silver in Treasure Island (1934) (who says never work with kids?). Beery became one of the top ten stars in Hollywood, as he was cast as the tough, dim-witted, easy-going type (which, in real life, he was anything but). In Flesh (1932) he would be the dim-witted wrestler who did not figure that his wife was unfaithful. In Dinner at Eight (1933) he played a businessman trying to get into society while having trouble with his wife, Jean Harlow. After Marie Dressler died in 1934, he would not find another partner in the same vein as his early talkies until he teamed with Marjorie Main in the 1940s. He would appear opposite her in such films as Wyoming (1940) and Barnacle Bill (1941).

By that time his career was slowing as he was getting up in age. He continued to work, appearing in only one or two pictures a year, until he died from a heart attack in 1949.

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GRAND BARTON ORGAN Like all grand movie theaters built during the Silent Film Era, the Capitol Theater had a pipe organ that allowed a single musician to fill the theater with music while movies were being shown.

Overture Center’s organ is a Barton, manufactured by the Bartola Musical Instrument Company in Oshkosh. It is believed to be the oldest Barton in Wisconsin, and the only one in the state remaining in its original location and condition. The instrument is such a rare gem that in 1990 it was honored by the Organ Historical Society as “an instrument of exceptional merit,” the first time a theater organ had been so recognized by the society, which typically reserves such honors for the grand pipe organs found in churches.

Hollywood had premiered the first “talkie,” the year before the Capitol Theater opened, but it took a while for sound films to catch on, and the Barton got a lot of use

Duck Soup Cinema Harold Lloyd’s Girl Shy 1924

in the early years of the Capitol Theater.

As sound films became popular, the organ was used for sing-alongs and pre-feature entertainment, but as film showings lost their pageantry, this role diminished.

The gold and red horseshoe-shaped console is the most visible part of the instrument, but the organ’s sound comes from 1,034 pipes hidden in chambers on either side of the stage. The large illuminated console and its 141 stop keys and three manuals is usually located at house right. At one time, it was on its own elevator in the orchestra pit. It was moved to make space for the many large-scale productions staged in the theater. A seven and one half horsepower blower in the basement of the theater powers the organ and the massive electrical switching system is sealed in a special room high in the building. This electrical relay is so large that it was put in place before the theater was finished in 1928 and could only be removed

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GRAND BARTON ORGAN with considerable demolition of the building.

The smallest pipes, which produce the high notes, are the size of a soda straw, and the largest are 16 feet tall and 18 inches in diameter. The pipes that produce the deepest notes are eight feet high and about 24 inches square, made of thick, knotless pine slabs. Like any wind instrument, the sound comes from air passing through the pipes, but the wind is supplied by a seven-horsepower air pump,

rather than a musician’s breath. The pipes are divided into fourteen ranks, or sets, that mimic the instruments of an orchestra.

In addition, a “toy counter” offers special sounds like a chirping bird, auto horn, sleigh bells and percussive effects.

An important part of keeping the organ in top condition is regular use. Overture Center continues to use the organ as part of the center’s Duck Soup Cinema series.

DENNIS JAMES For well over 25 years, Dennis James has played a pivotal role in the international revival of silent films with live music. Beginning as a pianist for campus screenings at Indiana University during the late 1960s, James now tours worldwide under the auspices of his own Silent Film Concerts production company presenting feature silent film programs with solo theatre organ, chamber ensemble and full symphony orchestra accompaniments.

Performing silent films regularly with symphony orchestras throughout the United States and Canada since 1978, James offers the most comprehensive repertoire in the field. James is a featured soloist on the international film festival circuit, including regular appearances for the San Francisco, Toronto, Washington D.C. and Philadelphia as well as the annual Pordenone and Rome (Italy) Festivals Cinema Muto. He performs frequently at the Walker Film Center in Minneapolis, the Cleveland Cinematheque and for the Chicago Art Institute’s film series and at the Louvre Museum in Paris, the Palazzo Delle Espisozioni in Rome, and the National Film Theatre in London. He regularly performs under the auspices of the American Film Institute, the Museum of Modern Art, the Pacific Film Archive, the George Eastman House, the American Federation of the Arts,

and for the U.C.L.A. Film and Television Archive and the British Film Institute.

His silent film presentations have been seen throughout Australia, New Zealand, France, Germany, The Netherlands, Italy and England. Dennis James is also dedicated to furthering public interest in the pipe organ and to the continuation of the theatrical traditions of organ performance. His has served as house organist for the Lansdowne and Brookline Theatres in Philadelphia and later at the Paramount and Rivoli Theatres in Indiana.

From 1975 to 1989 James was the final appointed house organist for the restored Ohio Theatre in Columbus. Since 1991 he appears frequently at the Stanford Theatre in Palo Alto, California, between his international touring engagements.

In a career made up of diverse engagements, he has performed with such popular film personalities as Vincent Price, Ray Bolger, Bob Hope, Red Skelton, Myrna Loy, Olivia De Havilland, Ginger Rogers and Fay Wray. He was selected by composer/conductor Carmine Coppola as the organist for the ongoing world tour presentations of Napoleon, the 1927 epic silent film by Abel Gance. He has also toured extensively with silent film stars Charles “Buddy” Rogers and the late Lillian Gish and providing musical accompaniment at national revivals of their motion pictures.

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JOE THOMPSON Joe Thompson has appeared on Madison stages countless times (plus one if you count tonight). He made his theatrical debut at the age of 9 with the Racine Theater Guild and thanks his mom and dad for always remembering to take him home after rehearsal.

His current activities include oregoni (the art of folding paper into the shapes resembling

Oregon), making jello salads, and strenuous daily oral hygiene. He is a member of Madison’s sketch comedy troupe “The Prom Committee” and co-author of Fatherhood, The Musical with Phil Martin.

He is the proud father of two and the lucky husband of one.

VAUDEVILLE Ace Willie, a.k.a., William Litzler has been performing in the Midwest for 40 years in venues ranging from Cub Scout banquets to corporate events. Ace was bitten by the magic bug after attending a magic show sponsored by The Houdini Club of Wisconsin in 1969. (He subsequently has shared the stage with every performer on that program.)

In the 1980s, Ace Willie further developed his comedy style as a regular performer at The Comedy Cellar, Madison’s first comedy club. Once, at the Comedy Cellar, Ace alerted management of an underage performer and had that teenager removed from the club. The teenager was Chris Farley! Ace Willie is also a dealer in rare and vintage magic. He as been a leading seller in eBay’s Magic Community since 1999. Currently Ace Willie and his wife Debbie are popular performers for family events sponsored by corporations, country clubs and area communities. Visit www.acewillie.com.

Jim “Doc the Rube” Carter has a Doctorate in Veterinary Medicine and a PhD in Veterinary Pathology from the Veterinary College at Kansas State University. He began clowning around with the Aldersgate Clowns in Olathe, Kansas in 1980. When he moved to Wisconsin he started the Asbury Clowns at Asbury United Methodist Church. His secular clowning has involved doing walk around entertainment and clown stage shows with his clown partners. He performed at the Clown Hall of Fame, the Kids Expo and in the Great Circus Parade in Milwaukee sponsored by the Circus World Museum. Doc has taught clown classes at several regional workshops and at a national Clown Impact Conference.

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Truly Remarkable Loon grew up in Madison, Wisconsin. His parents, immigrants from Eastern Europe, gave him a name no English-speaking person could properly pronounce. Loon used several different monikers (i.e. Parsley) until 1974. That year, while canoeing in the Boundary Waters, he was given the name Loon by his boating partner for his inattention to 13 consecutive days of rain. “Truly Remarkable” was added by another friend in 1975 for Loon’s blatant defiance for the laws of gravity.

A self-professed “class clown,” Loon attended Madison Memorial High School. He wishes to state once more for the record that he did not put a dead animal in the boys room, causing the evacuation of the entire A wing at the school in 1974.

In 1976, Loon was inspired to learn how to juggle. After two years of intense, obsessive practice, Loon was able to juggle balls, clubs, machetes, tomatoes, fire torches and anything else that wasn’t tied down.

Now, Loon can be seen on stage at fairs and festivals across America, juggling giant bean bag chairs, spinning plates, tossing the dreaded implements of death and those everflaming torches. Purple is his favorite color and trademark, though attempts to copyright the color have been unsuccessful.

Tangled Up In Blue is UW-Madison’s premier all-female a cappella group. We are currently celebrating our 13th year on campus.

We have five CDs to our name: Hole in the Roof, Unraveled, The Blue Book, Grounded, and The Mixtape.

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2012/13 Duck Soup Club Member List Current as of December 10, 2012

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