Embassy Features Classic Buster Keaton Silent Film

Steamboat Bill Jr. is regarded as a masterpiece of its era and included in the book 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die. Acclaimed organist Clark Wilson accompanies on the Grande Page. General admission tickets are $12 for adults and $6 for students and are available at the Embassy box office and Ticketmaster.

The film was released in 1928, the same year the Emboyd Theatre (re-named the Embassy in 1952) opened its doors, and includes Buster Keaton’s best-known comedic stunt of his entire career. Keaton’s character, Steamboat Bill, is a down-and-out steamboat captain desperately trying to compete with a new luxury riverboat owner, John James King. Pinning his hopes on his estranged son, Steamboat Bill Jr., he is distraught to discover his son is in love with King’s daughter Kitty. What follows is a hilarious and heroic silent film with a failed jail break using tools inside a loaf of bread. And when a cyclone hits, Keaton pulls off a masterful physical comedy feat.

Clark Wilson is considered one of the finest practitioners of the art of silent picture scoring. He enjoys a full concert touring schedule in addition to his work in organ restoration and is the only person to have won both Technician of the Year and Organist of the Year from the American Theatre Organ Society.

The Embassy Theatre opened during a time of opulence and featured a Grande Page Theatre Pipe Organ built by the Page Organ Company in Lima, Ohio. Join the Embassy Theatre and American Senior Communities on March 4 for a historic silent film experience with acclaimed organist Clark Wilson on the Grande Page.

What: Buster Keaton silent film, Steamboat Bill, Jr. accompanied by Clark Wilson on the Grande Page

Tickets: $12 for adults, $6 for students. On sale now at the Embassy box office, all other Ticketmaster outlets and Ticketmaster.com.

This programming is provided with support from Arts United of Greater Fort Wayne, the Indiana Arts Commission, a state agency, and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency. Additional support comes from The Louis A. and Anne B. Schneider Foundation.