Congratulations, Blue Mouse Theatre! The Proctor district historic cinema, which just celebrated its 86th birthday, is officially on the Washington Historic Register of historically and culturally significant buildings. It’s one of over 1600 properties on the register, and benefits include potential tax credits, property tax deductions and code waivers to protect the integrity of the site.

As well as being a tribute to all the Blue Mouse has done over its 86 years of showing popular and independent film in the North End neighborhood, it also protects the building for the future.

Now screening at the Blue Mouse: …

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It’s back to the future Friday night at the Blue Mouse Theatre when the movie house celebrates its 86th birthday with the same silent film that opened the theater in 1923.

That film, “The Green Goddess” starring George Arliss, follows three Brits who crash their plane in a kingdom near India, where they are held prisoner by the Rajah. His subjects believe that their Green Goddess has delivered the lives of the three fliers in return for the lives of Rajah’s brothers, who soon will be executed in India. Plot twists and intrigue abound.

Dennis James, a Tacoma resident who is considered one of the top silent movie organists and historical revivalists in the world, will accompany the film on a recently refurbished 1940s organ. He wrote the score for the “The Green Goddess” in 1988 as a commission by the film print’s owner, David Packard of the Packard Humanities Institute.
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