The Dryden will screen Good References (Roy William Neill, U.S. 1920, approx. 60 min., 35mm) preceded by Tramp Strategy (Alice Guy, U.S. 1911, approx. 12 min., 35mm, silent w/Dutch intertitles), "a short about a mischievous vagabond who infiltrates a bourgeois household"—both with live piano by Philip C. Carli as part of the Silent Tuesday series.

Constance Talmadge, one of the silent era's most popular comedic stars, plays a down-on-her-luck working girl who impersonates a friend to take a job as secretary to an elderly socialite. Things immediately start going downhill when she is tasked to introduce a ne'er-do-well nephew to high society—but ends up bailing him out of a string of scandals instead. Long considered a lost film, an original nitrate print of Good References surfaced at the Národní Filmový Archiv in Prague, which was provided to UCLA for this restoration. The Czech intertitles have been translated back into English and re-created in the style of the original production.

[source: George Eastman Museum calendar, 2018-Apr-23]