About THE FRESHMAN Streaming LIVE Event with Accompanist Andrew E. Simpson

Nationally acclaimed silent film accompanist, ANDREW SIMPSON, provided the soundtrack for the classic 1925 feature film comedy, THE FRESHMAN. Mr. Simpson played LIVE along with the movie on Saturday, May 1.

About THE FRESHMAN, the 1925 film:

In hopes of making some friends, Harold Lamb (Harold Lloyd) attends college at Tate University. But when the students notice his eccentric personality, he becomes the joke of the school. His fellow students convince Harold that he is popular but laugh at him behind his back, telling him that he is a player on the football team when he is actually the waterboy. Only his friend Peggy (Jobyna Ralston) knows that to be happy, Harold must accept himself for who he really is. The film was originally released on September 20, 1925.

Runtime: 1hr 10min

STARRING Harold Llyod, Jobyna Ralston, James Anderson, Joe Harrington, Brooks Benedict, Hazel Keener

WRITTEN BY Sam Taylor, John Grey

DIRECTED BY: Sam Taylor, Fred Newmeyer

CRITICS:

"If laughter really is a panacea for some ills, one might hazard that a host of healthy persons were sent away from The Colony (theatre) yesterday after regaling themselves in wild and rollicking explosions of mirth over Harold Lloyd's comic antics in his latest hilarious effusion, The Freshman." -New York Times, September 21, 1925

"Flawlessly executed and edited for maximum impact, the gags have timepiece precision, but Lloyd always sells his mishaps as things that just kind of happen to his character [The Freshman] works because it keeps viewers rooting for its hero." -The Dissolve

"Lloyd's films are prose where Keaton's were poems, but gag for gag, Lloyd was the funniest screen comic of his time." - Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader

About The Park Theatre

The Park Theatre first opened in Jaffrey in 1922 and was the center of community life as a movie and vaudeville house for 54 years until it closed in 1976. Purchased by The Park Theatre in 2006, it is being rebuilt as a state-of-the-art film and performing arts center, featuring two auditoriums seating 450, presenting movies, live theatre, including children’s productions, concerts, and lectures as well as offering a place for business and community gatherings for the Monadnock Region and its 100,000 residents, school districts and dynamic artistic community. The new theatre complex began construction in January 2019 and completed in 2020.

The Park Theatre is partially funded by the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts.