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The Short Life and Untimely Death of Lewis J. Warner

Tuesday, December 1st, 2009
by frank.callahan

Photograph of Lewis J. Warner

Worcester Academy graduate Lewis J. Warner was the son of Harry Warner, one the original Warner Brothers of motion picture fame. Harry served as the president of the movie company for thirty years until shortly before his death in 1958. Born Hirsch Wonsal in a family of Polish Jews, Harry was the oldest of the four Warner brothers and the only one of them born in Poland. At first the brothers owned theaters in Pennsylvania and Ohio, but then they moved to Hollywood in order to make movies to distribute for their theaters. After initially struggling, they gambled on the idea of talking pictures and eventually owned 250 theaters in which to screen their films. After that point, the company became known thoughout the world for its movies.

Lewis came to the Academy in 1926 as a junior and immediately became involved in all aspects of school life. He played on the football and baseball teams and served as the vice president of the Athletic Association. He was an editor of the Vigornia, was president of the Junior Class and vice president of the Senior Class. He was president of the Agora debate club in his senior year and participated in the Worcester – Williston debate. It is no wonder that he was a member of the drama club, and, he served as a cabinet member of the YMCA as well. He organized and was the first president of the Worcester Academy Boys Club. Through his influence, the first movies were shown at the school in the area now known as the Andes Pit Theater. In fact, the projectors were donated by his father. The original donation was for silent films, but Harry promised that as soon as sound projectors became available, he would send one, so that Worcester Academy would have the distinction of being the first school in the world to have a sound projector. During his second year after graduating from Worcester Academy, Lewis donated the sound projector. The Warners had a home in the Bronxville section of New York, and some alumni remember visiting the family estate. After graduating from Worcester Academy in 1928, Lewis matriculated to Columbia University.

Sadly Lewis J. Warner passed away just three years after graduating from Worcester Academy on April 4, 1931. He died of pneumonia at Doctors Hospital in New York City on East End Ave and 87th Street. Since February 14 of that year, he had been seriously ill from septic poisoning, which began in Havana, Cuba after the extraction of a tooth. His condition became so severe that on February 25 his uncle Albert Warner flew from Hollywood to Havana arriving on February 27, where his parents were already at his bedside. On March 4, he was flown by a special airplane from Havana to Miami, and then moved by train to New York. There he had an abscessed tooth extracted. Reportedly the dentist was the father of Burton Stark ‘32, who also went on to become a dentist. But pneumonia soon developed, then double pneumonia. Two days before his passing, the New York Times reported that Lewis was in critical condition. Then, he appeared to be considerably improved in the morning of April 4, but late in the afternoon a fatal relapse set in. Besides his parents, he was survived by two sisters, Doris and Betty. His age was 22 and he died at a young age because of an infection which today could be treated with antibiotic drugs.

Shortly after his death, his father notified the school of his intention to build a memorial to his son. A full movie theater had been an idea he and Lewis had discussed during Lewis’ years as a student at the Academy. Faculty remembered that Lewis took great pleasure in the installation of the talking picture apparatus and that it was the first school in the country to have this equipment. In fact, he took joy in planning the building with his parents. It would be a theater, but more than that, it would be a movie theater possibly the first built for a school anywhere in the U. S.

A 2008 documentary called “The Brothers Warner” gave a detailed history of the Warner family and Warner Brothers Pictures and depicted Lewis as the heir-apparent of the family empire because he was Harry’s only son. If he had lived a longer life, it is safe to say that he would have been very in