11.   A long-vacant building, the one-time home to Vaudeville and silent movies, is being renovated for the Michigan Opera Theater.

12.   Actually, it would have made an excellent silent movie.

13.   But the Film Institute went way overboard, picking only four silent movies, three of them starring Charlie Chaplin.

14.   Douglas Schwalbe of the Classic Movie Project said that many silent movies are released without much regard for their accompaniment.

15.   Elsewhere, there will be festivals of silent movies and of films by Fritz Lang, Charlie Chaplin, Marcel Pagnol and Jean Renoir.

16.   Even silent movies have yet to arrive.

17.   Film has replaced the orchestra, just as silent movies once imitated opera, and movie palaces imitated opera houses.

18.   For many players, not talking the game while playing it would be like watching silent movies.

19.   For several years, theater projectionists fussed with gramophone records, cueing them up to silent movies as they played, with unintentionally hilarious results.

20.   For those who love silent movies, the new theater is part of a slow reawakening.