Vancouver Symphony Orchestra Goes Back to the Movies with “Our Hospitality”

The Vancouver Symphony’s Chamber Music Series welcomes silent film score compiler Rodney Sauer back to Vancouver for a showing of Buster Keaton’s 1923 comedy “Our Hospitality” at the Kiggins Theatre, 1011 Main St., Vancouver, at 7 p.m. April 27.  The film will be accompanied by live music as it would have been heard in the silent film theaters of the 1920s. The cost is $25 or $10 for students with ID. Find out more at kigginstheatre.com, vancouversymphony.org or call 360-735-7278.

Keaton stars as Willie McKay, a young man travelling to Kentucky to claim his birthright who becomes entangled in a Romeo-and-Juliet-style romance with the daughter of the Canfield family. Only the strict rules of hospitality stand between him and certain doom at the hands of his sweetheart’s brothers.