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Died. Donald Crisp, 93, Hollywood character actor for more than half a century; in Van Nuys, Calif. Crisp made his movie debut in 1906 doing muta-scopes (still pictures flipped before the viewer's eye). Second in command to Director D.W. Griffith on The Birth of a Nation (1915), Crisp directed the film's battle scenes and played the part of General Grant. In 1941 he earned an Oscar for portraying Mr. Morgan in How Green Was My Valley, his 135th film, then went on to make some 300 more movies. He appeared as Elizabeth Taylor...
...still on the loose, the FBI and police were trying to track down a spate of rumors and reports about the trio. One tip had it that Patty would surface in Havana. Another, also unconfirmed, claimed that the Black Muslims had given $50,000 to a black man in Griffith Park two days after the shootout. Some-or all-of the sum was said to have been passed on to the fugitives...
...again that it had no idea where Patty Hearst was. Guards along both the Mexican and Canadian borders were on the alert for the trio. The key problem was that the authorities did not know what happened after Patty and the Harrises abandoned Frank Sutler's car near Griffith Park on the day of the shootings. "We're looking like hell," said William Sullivan, FBI chief in the city, "but we don't know how they departed the area." The last reliable sighting of the threesome was on May 19 in Sherman Oaks, a suburban community...
...result of astute salary bargaining and real estate investments. At 81, Mary has a long memory about money. She got really mad at Old Friend and Rival Charlie Chaplin only when, in 1956, he sold his share of United Artists (the company formed by Mary, Doug, Charlie and D.W. Griffith) without giving her first refusal. Told recently that Charlie had mellowed, Mary was unforgiving. "That's all very well," said America's sweetheart, "but he's still a son of a bitch...
...phrase "Banned in Boston" had little to do with movies in Massachusetts--except on Sundays. Even D.W. Griffith's notorious Birth of a Nation--banned in Chicago--was only edited in Boston. But on Sundays the Massachusetts censor held a firm hand. Two early Brattle movies, Miss Julie (from the Strindberg play) and Desires (a German film about morphine addiction) were officially barred from Sunday exhibition. On the second case Brattle went to court, and on July 6, 1955, in the case of Brattle Films v. Otis M. Whitney et. al., the Massachusetts Sunday Censorship Law was declared unconstitutional...