Civic Theatre of Allentown will screen a double-bill of the silent film classics, "The Kid" and "Easy Street," starring Charlie Chaplin, 7:30 p.m. Aug. 25, 19th Street Theatre, 527 N. 19th St., Allentown.

The presentation is another installment in Civic's ongoing series featuring silent classics of the silver screen.

"The Kid" (1921) was Chaplin's first full-length feature and is considered a silent movie masterpiece. The film utilizes Chaplin's most famous character, The Little Tramp, who discovers an orphan and brings him up but is left desolate when the orphanage reclaims him. Chaplin directed, produced and starred in the film.

In the film short, "Easy Street" (1917), Chaplin obtains a job as a police officer and is assigned the rough-and-tumble Easy Street as his beat.

A Civic Theatre silent film screening celebrates a classic American art form. Sitting in the historic 19th Street Theatre, which regularly screened silent films during its early years, patrons experience a film the way the audiences did 100 years ago.

Theater organist Don Kinnier accompanies the film on Civic's 1928 Moeller theater organ. Audiences who attended the screening of "The General," "Why Worry?" or "Safety Last" at Civic have marveled at Kinnier's virtuosity.

Kinnier has been called "the premier silent film accompanist in the northeastern United States." He has become well-known to concert, comedy and silent film audiences throughout the Lehigh and Delaware valleys. He is internationally-recognized from concert performances that have taken him from Boston to Buenos Aires and from Toronto to Taipei. Kinnier's programs are easy-going, fun and contain a large dose of good-natured humor, both verbal and musical.

Kinnier's appearance at Civic Theatre is sponsored by Allen Organ.

Tickets: CivicTheatre. com, 610-432-8943, and at the door