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...speakers' table, looking like a rather grouchy old professor, sat famed oldtime Director David Wark ("The Old Master") Griffith, who climaxed the affairs at 1 a. m. by awarding the three top prizes. Last week was a big one for Direc tor Griffith, now 56, comparatively poor, and apparently through with the cinema. In Manhattan two audiences invited by the Museum of Modern Art to its series of cinema classics agreed that his Intolerance (which, contrary to legend that it cost $2,500,000, was made for $330,000 in 1916) compared favorably in many ways with modern efforts...
Divorced. Linda Avidson Griffith-;, by David Lewelyn Wark Griffith, 56, onetime No. 1 film director (Birth of a Nation, Abraham Lincoln); after a 25-yeaf separation; in LaGrange...
...Sunday strode up to Jesus Christ, shook Him by the hand and said: "Jesus, thank you. I'm glad you honored me with salvation. I'm glad you honored me with the privilege of preaching your gospel. . . . Now, Jesus, I'd like to see old Aunty Griffith...
When old Aunty Griffith appeared, she asked: ''How are you, William? When did you leave the earth...
...which their predecessors found so stimulating many years ago. The 1920 production of Lottie Blair Parker's classic grossed $2,000,000 and the scene in which Lillian Gish floundered toward a happy ending through the ice-cakes probably drew as many tears as anything else David Wark Griffith ever directed...