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Died. David Wark Griffith, 73, a pioneer film producer (The Birth of a Nation); of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Los Angeles (see CINEMA...
...could not find a job in the town he had invented. He clung to the shadows, a bald, eagle-beaked man, sardonic and alone. At parties, he sat drinking quietly, his sharp eyes panning the room for a glimpse of familiar faces, most of them long gone. David Wark Griffith had been The Master, and there was nobody quite like him afterwards...
...Shameful Profession. It was a long stretch from the genteel poverty of the Kentucky farm where D. W. Griffith was born in 1875 to the international renown he achieved. He had wanted to be a writer, but all that he wrote floundered and failed. In the beginning he was ashamed to be an entertainer: he toured with road shows as Lawrence Griffith. He was stranded in tank towns, fired, overworked and underfed. Between roles, he did slob labor...
...Warner Bros, and 20th Century-Fox to have block booking declared illegal. But in the labyrinth of deals and counter-deals in Hollywood, the antitrust division found that it had to go farther. The same suit named Columbia, United Artists and Universal. It buttressed its case with suits against Griffith Amusement Co. (with theaters in 85 towns in Oklahoma, Texas and New Mexico) and the Stanley Co. Also sued was Schine Theater Co. (150 theaters in six states), owned by J. Myer Schine (TIME, Dec. 23, 1946), a small-town boy who still lives at Gloversville...
...Held that the Griffith, Schine and Stanley chains had monopolized the movie business in their areas, and ordered the district court to pronounce a judgment that will strip the defendants of "the full dividends of their monopolistic practices." In effect, a ceiling was put on the growth of regional chains...