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American actor and make-up artist Lon Chaney Sr. (1883 – 1930) dressed as the Phantom on the set of the 1925 horror movie ‘The Phantom of the Opera’ in Los Angeles, California, circa 1925. (Photo by TPLP\/Getty Images) <\/p>\n
SAN FRANCISCO – A couple of classic silent horror films \u2014 “Phantom of the Opera” and “Nosferatu”–screen at Grace Cathedral <\/a>in San Francisco<\/a> for Halloween.<\/p>\n The real star of the events, however, is the cathedral’s famed 7,500-pipe Aeolian-Skinner organ, a key facet of the church since it was installed in 1934. The organ will be played by musician Dorothy Papadakos, who started out as a jazz pianist in her native Reno and has evolved into a world-renowned organ player, thanks in part to a long stint as organist at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York and Grammy-winning work with the Paul Winter Consort; the live album “Silver Solstice” remains a New Age\/ambient classic.<\/p>\n Papadakos, considered a talented improviser, accompanies the 1925 silent version of “Phantom of the Opera” starring Lon Chaney, at 8 p.m. Thursday, and the 1922 version of “Nosferatu” – a film that was once ordered destroyed because it was deemed to be an unauthorized adaptation (read: ripoff) of Bram Stoker’s “Dracula” – at 8 p.m. Friday.<\/p>\n The church, a San Francisco landmark and always worth a visit, is at Taylor and California streets. Tickets are $34.50-$44.50 at sfjazz.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n (Original Caption) Still from the famous 1922 German film, “Nosferatu,” prototype of future films dealing with vampires. BPA 2 #3124 <\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n San Francisco<\/a>News<\/a>Arts and Culture<\/a>Holidays<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article American actor and make-up artist Lon Chaney Sr. (1883 – 1930) dressed as the Phantom on the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31091,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[1184,1811,21848,2646,100,101,103,102,425,104,106,105,1181],"class_list":{"0":"post-31090","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-francisco","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-four","10":"tag-four-arts","11":"tag-holidays","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-san-francisco","14":"tag-san-francisco-headlines","15":"tag-san-francisco-news","16":"tag-series","17":"tag-sf","18":"tag-sf-headlines","19":"tag-sf-news","20":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31090\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/gettyimages-517324732-scaled.jpg\")
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