It's almost showtime!  Most of the features have been selected, BUT, As always,
Titles are Subject to change.

M'Liss (1936)
Director: George Nichols Jr.
Release Date: 7 August 1936
Production Company: RKO Radio Pictures
Cast: Anne Shirley, John Beal, Guy Kibbee
This is the story of an innocent mountail girl who causes quite a stir every time she comes to town to bring her father home from the bar.  One day, she is kissed by the town schoolmaster.
Confused about the kiss, she goes to the town brothel for advice.

The Raven (1915)
Stars: Henry B. Walthall as Poe
Director: Charles Brabin
Essanay Film Manufacturing Company
We thought about getting this last year but since it’s the 200th anniversary of Poe’s birth, it's a must show this year.
The story follows Poe's life beginning with his early ancestors, his adoption as a child by the Poe family and troubled youth, which ultimately resulted in his family's disownment. From his inability to sell his stories to going into debt to buy a slave that is being beaten by his owner. Married life proves to be even more difficult and the tragic early death of his wife sends Poe into the despair and drunken illusions that lead to his death.
The special effects and dream sequences will simply amaze you. 
Restored by The George Easman House from a 28mm positive.

O Mimi San (1914)
Directed by Reginald Barker.
Stars: Sessue Hayakawa, Tsuru Aoki, Mildred Harris.
In Hayakawa's first film, he plays a Japanese emperor's son who is torn between two women played by Tsuru Aoki (who was soon to be Mrs. Hayakawa) and Harris (who was soon to be Mrs. Charles Chaplin). 
35mm short subject provided by The George Easman House

The Devil's Claim (1920)  
Friends of jilted lovers - look out!
Directed by Charles Swickard.
Cast: Sessue Hayakawa, Rhea Mitchell, 
         Colleen Moore
A Greenwich Village novelist uses his love affairs as inspiration for his books. When he exhausts all the story material from his affair with Indora, a young Persian girl, he deserts her becomes involved with Virginia who wants to kill him. 
She pretends to fall in love with Khan and inspires him with tales of the devil's trademark.  
Restoration Funded by AFI/The Film Foundation.
35mm print provided by The George Easman House   

M'Liss (1918)
Artcraft Pictures Corporation
Cast:
Mary Pickford, Thomas Meighan, Tully Marshall, Charles Ogle
M'Liss lives with her good-time father during the 1849 California gold rush. A wild and unruly though lovable girl, M'Liss decides to acquire manners and an education when a handsome young schoolteacher comes to town.
Real problems arise including a false arrest, fraud, a lynching and a murder .

Pietro wyzej (1937) in english The Apartment Above
Director: Leon Trystan
Cast: Eugeniusz Bodo, Jozef Orwid, Helena Grossowna
A classic comedy of errors from the Polish cinema of the 1930`s. Two unrelated men having the same name get involved in a string of bizarre and hilarious adventures.   Subtitles included!

The Pony Express (1925)
Director: James Cruze
Production Company: Famous Players Cast: Betty Compson, Ricardo Cortez, Wallace Berry, George Bancroft
In the 1860's Senator Glen of California heads a secret society called the "Knights of the Golden Circle" in a conspiracy to have California secede from the Union, annex part of Mexico, and establish a new empire.  The bottom line - you can control a lot more if you control the news and the delivery of it.

Great White Trail (1917)
AN EPIC OF THE ARTIC
Directors: Leopold Wharton & Theodore Wharton
Cast: Doris Kenyon, Paul Gordon, Louise Hotelling, Bessie Wharton
She is accused of infidelity and is casted out of the house with her baby. Partially demented by the shock, Prudence (Doris) places the baby in a basket in the woods where she is discovered by Arthur Dean's dog who brings the basket home. Prudence is found unconscious in the woods and taken to a hospital while Dean adopts the baby. Upon recovering, Prudence discovers that she has lost her memory, but wait, there is more!
35mm Print courtesy of Library and Archives Canada

Rich Man's Folly (1931)
Director: John Cromwell
Paramount Pictures
Cast: George Bancroft, Frances Dee
Based on Charles Dickens' novel Dombey and Son. 
It's set in 1931 America and centers on an egotistical, over-ambitious owner of a shipbuilding company. Focused on succeeding, he forgets his family and their needs. When he begins looking for a successor to his empire he immediately ignores his daughter to pick his younger, more frail son whom he is determined to turn into a "real man".

Pillars of Society (1916)
Director: Raoul Walsh
Distribution Company: Triangle Film Corp.
Production Company: Fine Arts Film Co.
Producer: Raoul Walsh
Cast: Henry Walthall, Mary Alden, Juanita Archer 
Norwegian shipping magnate Karsten Bernick prides himself on his value to society, and forgets that, in order to maintain his high standing, he has had to rely on lies and dishonesty. Years before achieving his current status, however, he had an affair with Madame Dorf, resulting in a daughter, after which he convinced his brother-in-law Johan, who was soon to leave the country, to claim to be the girl's father. Then, when Madame Dorf dies, Karsten adoptes the child. 
Of course it doesn't end there, there are many complications to this story!
Newly restored 35mm tinted print preserved and provided by The Library of Congress.

Take the Heir (1930)
Cast:
Edward Everett Horton is Smithers
Dorothy Devore is Susan
Frank Elliott is Lord Tweedham
Lord Tweedham, a tipsy Englishman, falls heir to his deceased uncle's estate in the United States. Upon his arrival there, his valet, Smithers, is forced to impersonate Tweedham because of his master's drunken state. At the home of the uncle's executor, John Walker, Smithers falls in love with Susan the maid, though he is pursued by the executor's fat daughter, Muriel.  Then it starts getting good!  
This is the silent version of a part talking picture.
35mm print Preserved by the Library of Congress

Pleasure Cruise (1933)
Director: Frank Tuttle
Cast: Genevieve Tobin, Roland Young, Ralph Forbes
The honeymoon is over.  After a year of marrage, she thinks seperate vacations, aka "time away from each other", will give them a chance to decide on their future together.  He follows her on the cruise to keep an eye on her.  Hilarity ensues.  It's a wonderful from the end of the Pre-Code era that doesn't disappoint with the script and introduces some cutting edge camera effects.

Centennial Summer (1946)
Director: Otto Preminger
Cast: Jeanne Crain, Cornel Wilde, Walter Brennan,
         Constance Bennett, Dorothy Gish
It's Technicolor and a musical!
Set against the 1876 Philadelphia Exposition, this exquisitely designed valentine to a bygone era focuses on a suburban middle-class family's troubles, turmoils and women looking for men. It's highlighted by Jerome Kern's best music.
It was the last film work he would complete prior to his death in 1945.

This Way Please (1937)
Production Company: Paramount Pictures
Cast: Charles 'Buddy' Rogers, Betty Grable, Ned Sparks, 
         Mary Livingstone
It's a Comedy, It's a Musical filled with romance!
The story takes place in a movie theatre that provides a stage show before the feature. 
Betty plays an aspiring dancer who is star-struck over Buddy and decides to audition for a position in the chorus line for his show. 
She ends up being hired as an usherette instead. Meanwhile, the daughter of the theater owner, pursues her own matrimonial dreams with the theater's publicity man Ned.  Jim and Marian Jordan, radio's Fibber McGee and Molly, make their film debut, as does Mary Livingstone. 
This was Betty Grable's first appearance under her new Paramount contract.  

Song of the Open Road (1944)
Cast: Edgar Bergen,
W.C. Fields, Sammy Kaye,
Jane Powell, Jack Moran,
The Condos Brothers,
Reginald Denny, Regis Toomey.
Child film star Jane Powell, fed up with her every move being stage managed by her stage mother, runs away and joins the C.C.C.  It doesn't take her long to discover that being "normal" isn't that easy.  A crisis causes her to enlist the help of her show friends. Songs include: "Too Much in Love," "Here It Is Monday," "Delightfully Dangerous,"
"Hawaiian War Chant" & "Notre Dame."

Sing Me a Song of Texas (1945) Big action musical from
Columbia!
Cast: Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams,
Slim Summerville, Noah Beery, 
Pinky Tomlin, Riders of the Purple Sage, The Hoosier Hot Shots,
Hal McIntyre's Orchestra
The two nieces of a not so deceased ranch owner arrive to learn that an unknown judge will determine which one of them will inherit their uncles estate. The uncle is alive and posing as the cook and judges their every move!
Whackyness and music ensues.