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"EVERY LITTLE MOVEMENT"
Genre on score: song
"Get The Nickel Habit" [Nickel Theatre advertisement]
Albert Street Nickel Theatre advertisement promoting music, sound, and respectability.
"Horace Wilson Has Won Many Honors: Regent Organist Has Had a Varied Career" [article]
A praiseful short biography of Horace Wilson's training and achievements.
"L'Intransigeant" opera at Le Monument National [advertisement]
"L'Intransigeant", an opera by Amédée Tremblay and Rémi Tremblay, played at Le Monument National in June 1906. This may have been the premier.
"Let's All Go To the Franklin" [advertisement]
The music for “Let’s All Go To the Franklin” was published in the Ottawa Journal as part of“Franklin Week” in September 1929.
"Moving Picture Theatres Assist Much in Spreading the Gospel of Good Music" [article]
A descriptive article discussing silent film music practices and musicians at several Ottawa theatres.
"New Theatre Being Constructed on Bank Street" [illustration and text]
Drawing of the planned Imperial Theatre published during its construction in November 1913. The cinema would open on August 24, 1914.
"Operafilm" production of "The Bohemian Girl" at the Imperial [advertisement]
An advertisement for Basil Horsfall’s “Operafilm,” a combination of live costumed opera singers alongside an on-screen dramatisation, which later appeared in Winnipeg, Calgary, and Salem after its initial presentation in Ottawa.
"Ottawa Symphony Orchestra" [article]
One of several notices of the Ottawa Symphony Orchestra's repertoire found in the North American music trade journal,The Metronome. Notices for the Chateau Laurier Orchestra can also be found in this journal.
"Ottawa's 'Pollyanna' Prologue Goes Big" [article]
An article describing the Russell's successful April 1920 prologuePolyanna at the Court of Happiness, which preceded showings of the Mary Pickford filmPollyanna.