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Huntsman's "A" boat will have Mizzy Stokes at stroke, Antoinette LaFarge at seven, Janet Mazur at six, captain Dottie Kent at five, Roxanne Malenbaum at four, Mary Hunt at three, Marsha Cline at two, Gish Jen in the bow, and Barbara Pearce...
...Lillian Gish was a 13-year-old actress working for Theatrical Producer David Belasco when she signed on as an extra at the eccentric David Lewelyn Wark Griffith's Manhattan movie studio in 1912. For the next ten years, she starred in some of Griffith's greatest films-Birth of a Nation, Way Down East, Intolerance. Griffith died a forgotten man in 1948, but Gish never stopped working to have his genius recognized. Last week, on the centenary of Griffith's birth and at Gish's urging, a 10? stamp with the film maker...
Certainly there can be no argument with the President's admonition to conserve food and fuel. Some of his other preachments about hoarding bucks, however, were enough to give even Franklinesque economists pause. Slug gish consumer buying, rather than ex cess demand, is one element of the cur rent stagflation. Economizing when demand is weak and saving when savings are already high are two Ford prescriptions that if taken too literally could result in deepening the recession with out necessarily curbing inflation...
...shooting night-time scenes during the day, through a filter; the film is also about the relation of film reality to lived reality. The term can be taken to stand for cinema itself: the magic, dreamy darkness brought to us by Hollywood. Day for Night is dedicated to the Gish sisters, pioneers of the star system, and the film being made within the film is a cheap melodrama. There are quarrels and affairs among the actors, and nostalgic recounting of old ways of film-making. There are many homages to figures from the whole history of film: The Citizen Kane...
...Scarlet Letter. A tightly packed and emotional version of the Hawthorne novel, dubiously referred to as a classic of American literature. Lillian "the It Girl" Gish shines as the Puritan wife who bears the local pastor's child, for she was one of the artists of the silent film who practiced the ultimate in method acting: no words at all. Channel...