Alan Crosland’s motion picture “Don Juan”, starring Theodore E. Steinway’s actor friend John Barrimore, premieres in New York, at the Warner Theater on 52nd and Broadway on Times Square. This is the first feature-length sound film, created with synchronized Vitaphone sound effects and musical soundtrack – even though there’s no spoken dialogue in the movie. 107 members of New York Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Henry Kimball Hadley, perform the musical score of the film. This marks the advent of the sound cinema, and the beginning of the end of the obligatory piano in a movie theater.