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The Public Is Never Wrong
time sitting with audiences and talking with members as they departed. Brady had never done that. Though as fine a man as there came, at this stage of his career he would not have wanted to be caught dead by any of his friends in a movie house.
I suggested that we convert to straight moving pictures, throwing out the railway props. I made a test, using The Great Train Robbery. As the "train" reached the summit of Mount Blanc or the head of the Royal Gorge, I had it grind to a halt. Then the robbery film was thrown on the screen. The audience interest picked up.
Brady agreed to go ahead, as long as his name was not openly attached to the project.
By this time the term Nickelodeon had come in. It was invented, I understand, by John P. Harris and Harry Davis for their little store theater in Pittsburgh. They combined "nickel" and "odeon" the Greek word for theater. The happy choice caught on, sometimes changed to "Nicolet" or "Nickelet." The big sweep was in 1905-6 and of course our five-cent Crystal Hall had been ahead of it. But there is no doubt that the term Nickelodeon was an important though temporary factor in the growth of the film industry.
Nevertheless, we passed the term by and called our new venture the Comedy Theater. Nickelodeon would not have fitted since we charged a dime. Despite the "Comedy" in the title, The Great Train Robbery remained a chief standby. Business picked up— for a while.
Marcus Loew had gone into the penny-arcade busi