Olympic Theatre
The Olympic becomes Pittsburgh’s first downtown movie theatre to get Vitaphone - Warner Brothers' sound technology - opening on March 27, 1927 with four talkie shorts, “Introductory Speech by Will Hays,” “The Four Aristocrats,” Giovanni Martinelli in the operetta, “Vesti la giubba,” and George Jessell in “A Theatrical Booking Office.” It was followed by “Let it Rain” starring Douglas MacLean (a silent Paramount feature) and a silent Pathé newsreel.
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