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...many thousand drinks of whiskey were thus won by Alfred Griffith, Australian immigrant, is not recorded. Several thousand too many, certainly. He was young Griffo, some say the fastest, cleverest fisticuffer ever known. He never won a championship. He trained for prize fights by walking with increasing unsteadiness from the clean white handkerchief to the beer-slopped...
Died. Young Griffo (real name Alfred Griffith), 56, onetime pugilist; in Manhattan; of apoplexy...
...passages, printed them on strips of paper slipped between the program leaves.* Even so, London was shocked at the play. There were purple passages (not Biblical); there was the actress, Jeanne De Casalis, in pajamas from which the producer had ordered the sleeves and lining stripped. Said Herbert Griffith in the Evening Standard: "I thought up to last night that I was unshockable but found I wasn...
Wedding Bills (Raymond Griffith). "He is the worst best man I ever had," says the groom of Mr. Van Twidder. The trouble is that Mr. Van Twidder has been pressed into too many wedding ceremonies, is bored with everything. No former wedding was like this one, however, where he is obliged to recover letters from a blackmailing woman and to chase a pigeon up the flagpole of a skyscraper in what proved, figuratively and literally, to be the high point of a funny film...
Time to Love (Raymond Griffith). While making love in a rowboat that bobs on the edge of a fall, fighting duels for the Marquis de Daddo, and engaging in picturesque stunts that have little plot cohesion, Raymond Griffith manages to appear nonchalantly amusing...