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...Bennett Case was discussed behind closed doors. Last week, nobody knew for sure how Philip De Catesby Ball had been persuaded to drop his stubborn plan of revenge against Judge Landis. For dissuading him from a course of action which might have destroyed organized baseball, gossip credited Clark Griffith, part owner of the Washington "Senators," Colonel Jacob Ruppert, owner of the New York ''Yankees," and Robert Quinn, owner of the Boston...
...Struggle (United Artists-D. W. Griffith). Director David Wark Griffith knew the patois of the cinema 15 years ago, but with his Abraham Lincoln of last year he revealed that he has not bothered to keep up with the times. The Struggle, written by Anita Loos and John Emerson, acted by Hal Skelly and Zita Johann, is a shiftless and pitiably stupid homily which, esthetically and financially, should be an embarrassment to all concerned. Its story-of a steel-worker who takes to tippling and ends up with a case of delirium tremens in a thunderstorm-is really no story...
...versatile Walter Huston has split rails for Griffith's "Lincoln" and harangued juries in courtroom scenes, and now, at the R. K. O. Boston Theatre, he goes down to the sea in ships. He earns his bread by bringing in salmon to a tiny fisher village somewhere in the north. Morose and violent, he strides away from the funeral of his first wife to drink barroom whiskey and brawl over a prostitute. Like another Captain Ahab, he rules his son, Kent Douglass, who has no heart for fishing...
Near Wenatchee, Wash., Walter Griffith's truck, loaded with watermelons, skidded from the road, burst into flames. Quick-witted Walter Griffith grabbed his watermelons, threw them against the truck with might & main. The 23rd watermelon put out the fire...
...Brown Mehard Griffith, of Sewickley. Pa., a suburb of Pittsburgh, was found dead yesterday morning at the bottom of an airshaft in the Somerset Hotel, 150 West Forty-seventh Street. Although police investigated the possibility that she might have jumped through the window of her room on the fourth floor, they believed later that she may have fallen over the sill of the airshaft while moving about her room in the early morning...