Program of Vitaphone Shorts Shown Before Don Juan
The following short films made in Vitaphone were shown before Don Juan on August 6, 1926 at the Warner Theater on 52nd and Broadway in Times Square:
- Introductory Remarks by Will H. Hays
- The New York Philharmonic, under the direction of Henry Hadley, plays the overture to Richard Wagner's Tannhäuser
- Marion Talley performs "Caro nome" from Rigoletto by Giuseppe Verdi.
- Roy Smeck, billed as "The Wizard of the Strings" in His Pastimes
- Efrem Zimbalist performs "Kreutzer Sonata" by Beethoven.
- Anna Case and The Dancing Cansinos in La Fiesta
- Mischa Elman performs "Humoresque" by Antonín Dvořák
- Giovanni Martinelli sings "Vesti la giubba" from I Pagliacci
The Vitaphone system was quickly duplicated for the Hollywood premiere in October 1926 at Grauman's Egyptian Theater. Among the stars who attended included such luminaries as John Barrymore, Lionel Barrymore, Charlie Chaplin, Greta Garbo, Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks, Theda Bara, Buster Keaton, Samuel Goldwyn, King Vidor and Eleanor Boardman, Cecil B. DeMille, Wallace Beery, Pola Negri, Dolores del Rio, Marion Davies, Janet Gaynor, Allan Dwan, Victor Fleming, and Richard Barthelmess.
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