Silent Movies Return to State Theatre

For the first time in more than 80 years, silent movies are heading back to Easton's .

The Peacherine Ragtime Orchestra, based in College Park, Md., will provide the soundtrack to three silent films Sunday, April 22 at the State.

The movies are:

• Behind the Screen, from 1916, with Charlie Chaplin, who plays a studio worker who helps a young woman find a job, while his colleagues strike against their boss.
• The Playhouse, a 1921 film with Buster Keaton playing over 20 different roles.
• Buster Keaton again, in 1922's Cops, getting in trouble with the LAPD due to a series of mishaps.

According to the State Theatre, the orchestra will follow the movies with music by Scott Joplin and other artists from the ragtime era.