KUER, arts center to spotlight early movies
Admission to event at Capitol Theatre is only 25 cents
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Lynn Arave
Assisted by the Salt Lake County Center for the Arts, KUER will participate in an evening of silent-film nostalgia and fun Sept. 21 at 7 p.m. in the Capitol Theatre, 50 W. 200 South.
Activities will include a live broadcast of "RadioWest" and a special screening of Charlie Chaplin's 1917 short film "Easy Street," followed by Chaplin's 1931 classic feature "City Lights" — both accompanied by Blaine Gale on the Capitol's Wurlitzer Organ.
"RadioWest's host Doug Fabrizio will be joined by National Public Radio film correspondent Bob Mondello, as well as Hunter Hale who is one of the programmers of silent film programs for the Organ Loft, and they will discuss the silent-film era and the work of Chaplin.
Audience members are encouraged to dress in period costume — flapper dresses, Chaplin look-alike apparel, Valentino glamour, elegant hats, etc.
The public is invited to the event and patrons should be in their seats by 6:45 p.m. for the live broadcast. Admission is just 25 cents, typical price of the time period. Theater doors open at 6:20 p.m., and seating for about 2,200 people will be first-come, first-served. The program will air live on KUER from 7-8 p.m. on Sept. 21.
• RADIO HAPPENINGS — Danny Kramer of KDYL (AM-1280) will host another "Local Matters" TV program on Sunday at 11 a.m. on KJZZ-Ch. 14. The show will deal with how to build a business, marketing and public relations.
— The "Outdoor Utah" show on KALL (AM-700) was dropped recently by the station. Whether it will appear on some other station in the future is not known at this point.
— Joe and Tommy Johnson of "Johnson and Johnson" on KUBL, the kings of local radio stunts these days, had their own football-catching contest last week at Skyline High.
— As important as radio is today, it was even more important to explorers 80 years ago in its relative infancy. Take the 1923 United States Geological Survey to map the Colorado River. The dozen men on that expedition relied heavily on personal messages broadcast by the Los Angeles Times on its public-radio station KHJ to keep them informed on weather. When their radio set was broken, they didn't know of an impending flood that threatened them.
The personal importance of early radio is stressed in a new Utah State University Press book, "Damming Grand Canyon: The 1923 USGS Colorado River Expedition."
E-mail: lynn@desnews.com
Recent comments
For the RadioWest screening at the Capitol, Blaine Gale of Organ...
Hunter Hale | Sept. 15, 2007 at 8:22 p.m.
The correct frequency for KDYL is 1060 AM, not 1280 as mentioned...
David | Sept. 14, 2007 at 1:44 p.m.
