When 25-year-old Natacha Rambova was interviewed by the film magazine Photoplay in December 1922, the celebrated costume designer was surely thinking of her own secret love affair with Rudolph Valentino when she discussed Hollywood’s celebrity circus. “Fame is like a giant X-ray,” she once said. “Once you are exposed beneath it, the very beatings of your heart are shown to a gaping world.”
The Vancouver Symphony’s Chamber Music Series welcomes silent film score compiler Rodney Sauer back to Vancouver, WA for a showing of Buster Keaton’s 1923 laugh-out-loud comedy Our Hospitality at the historic Kiggins Theatre Thursday, April 27. The concert begins at 7 PM with the evening’s uproarious film accompanied by live music as it would have.