My paternal grandmother played the organ for silent movies at the Roosevelt Theatre during the theatre’s early years. Cathryn Bircher Cooper. She’d studied music in New York. She had to improvise to what she saw on the movie screen. I never met her. She died in her mid 30’s in the mid-1930’s when my father was a boy.
My paternal grandmother played the organ for silent movies at the Roosevelt Theatre during the theatre’s early years. Cathryn Bircher Cooper. She’d studied music in New York. She had to improvise to what she saw on the movie screen. I never met her. She died in her mid 30’s in the mid-1930’s when my father was a boy.