On a midsummer evening just 20 years ago this week, Warner Brothers decidedvery cagily, as it turned outthat sound movies were here to stay.* When the public wholeheartedly agreed, the rest of Hollywood scrambled aboard the bandwagon.
"You Ain't Heard Nothin1 Yet." The four Warner boysHarry, Jack, Abe and Sam (now dead)were sons of a Polish immigrant who became an Ohio butcher. About 1905 the brothers got hold of a projection machine and began to pick up a few dollars exhibiting The Great Train Robbery. Then they acquired a nickelodeon in New Castle, Pa....
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