Sunday Morning, May 26, 2002 at The Wexner Center for the Arts Film/Video Theater, Cinevent and The Wexner Center will present Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey in the surreal 1933 comedy with music SO THIS IS AFRICA. Also on the program will be Charley Chase in the 1937 Columbia two-reel comedy MAN BITES LOVEBUG. A second feature film to be announced soon will complete the program. Seating for this screening is limited to 280, and tickets for the screening and bus transportation to and from the Wexner Center are available at an additional charge. Tickets are $10.00 each, in addition to the regular Cinevent registration fee.

Join us at the Ramada Plaza Hotel and Conference Center (formerly the Radisson Hotel Columbus North) as we celebrate  the 34th annual CINEVENT. Featured in the Ramada screening room: the final installment in out survey of the popular Peter Lorre series, MR. MOTO ON TAKES A VACATION (1938) with Joseph Schildkraut and Lionel Atwill; Colleen Moore wins a "Be a Movie Star" contest in ELLA CINDERS (1926), also starring Lloyd Hughes; DOCTOR BULL (1933), played by Will Rogers, prescribes common sense and neighborliness; in F. W. Murnau's CITY GIRL (1930), farm boy Charles Farrell finds love in the big city; but Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell find love and life can be uphill in CHANGE OF HEART (1934); in YOU'D BE SURPRISED (1926), coroner Raymond Griffith is called away from the opera to a murder scene and vows to solve the crime in time to see the opera's grand finale; touring theatrical company wardrobe lady Bea Lillie is introduced as "Violet, the drudge of the troupe...Who also plays parts like 'Nothing' in Much Ado About Nothing" in EXIT SMILING (1926); after 25 years in prison, THE LAST OUTLAW (1936), Harry Carey, discovers that times have changed; the "original" Harrison Ford finds Ex-wife Marie Prevost (with new husband Harry Myers) in an adjacent hotel room in UP IN MABEL'S RAOOM (1926); an outrageous double feature of Hal Roach "streamliners" lampooning Hitler and company in THE DEVIL WITH HITLER (1942) and THAT NATZY NUISANCE (1944), both featuring Bobby Watson; Bing sings and Jack Oakie mugs in TOO MUCH HARMONY (1933); is Ivor Novello the mad killer in Alfred Hitchcock's THE LODGER (1926)?; two Laurels and two Hardys are better than one, as Stan and Ollie's seafaring twins return to wreak havoc in OUR RELATIONS (1936); Charley Chase sails HIGH SEAS (1930) and some ROUGH SEAS (1931) in this year's FESTIVAL OF CHARLEY CHASE SHORTS; spend an afternoon with Doctor Jekyll, featuring the rarely seen Sheldon Lewis version of DR. JEKYLL & MR. HYDE (1920) and Stan Laurel as DR. PYCKLE & MR. PRYDE; George Murphy is at THE TOP OF THE TOWN (1937); Douglas Fairbanks is THE MAN FROM PAINTED POST (1917); as MR. DYMAMITE (1935), Edmund Lowe stumbles upon several corpses; hear The Andrews Sisters sing out in SWINGTIME JOHNNY (1943); before his reputation as one of the all-time great stuntmen, Yakima Canutt rides the range in BRANDED A BANDIT (1924); Warren William as THE LONE WOLF KEEPS A DATE (1940); A MINI-FESTIVAL OF SILENT LAUREL AND HARDY SHORTS (Slipping Wives and Leave 'Em Laughing); our ANNUAL ANIMATION PROGRAM and much  more to come! Screenings begin at 1:00 PM Friday, and run through 1:00 PM Monday (with a little time out to sleep!)

• Over 170 dealers tables will be filled with every type of movie collectable.
• Pianists Philip Carli and David Drazin will provide accompaniment for the silents
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