The cinema comes to life during a screening of Lon Chaney’s 1928 romantic tragedy and silent film, Laugh, Clown, Laugh as part of the Toledo Museum of Art’s Sounds of Silents Film and Live Music Series. The picture follows the story of Tito, a travelling circus clown as he tours the country and chances upon an abandoned child. Naming her Simonetta, Tito decides to raise the young girl as his own. See what happens when Tito’s feelings towards Simonetta turn from nurturing to romantic, as emotion becomes a tangled love triangle, revolving around Tito, Simonetta and Luigi, a wealthy man whose loving advances Simonetta rejected years earlier. The film will be accompanied by an original score, written by composer Frank Pahl, supported by his band Little Bang Theory, as they perform on tiny toy instruments and the historic Skinner organ.
7pm Thursday, January 21
Toledo Museum of Art Peristyle, 2445 Monroe St.
419-255-8000 | toledomuseum.org
Free
