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...Regular Fellow. Raymond Griffith is rapidly rising dangerously near the position of leading light comedian of the screen. In this description he must be carefully distinguished from Mr. Chaplin, Mr. Lloyd and Mr. Keaton, who are specialists rather in slapstick...
...would like to know the subject matter of the picture shown which bore the non-committal title. "Problem No. 1." Some tendencies in the movie industry seem admirably adapted to church use: for instance, the fondness displayed by deMille and Griffith for such parts of the Bible narratives as are capable of conventional interpretations. "Intolerance", "Salome", "The Ten Commandments" to mention only a few, are on sufficiently scriptural subjects, and, in addition, have other features which, admission gratis, would pack the Basilica of St. Peter itself to the doors. And if the progressive pastor of this Lynn church wishes...
...Afraid not be back in time to help Washington root for Griffith [Clark Griffith, President of the Washington American League Baseball Club...
...Griffith, greatest of directors, has temporarily abandoned the production of vast pageants for the more commercial program picture. This one is adapted from a musical comedy (Poppy) which gave him no master narrative. But he did have the master stage comedian W. C. Fields, and between them they have worked out just about the most amusing comedy that you will recall this year. It is a circus story of the little heroine brought up by the three-card-monte man. There is the rich Peyton Lennox for her later on. She is Carol Dempster and he is Alfred Lunt...
Kiss Me Again. Ernst Lubitsch is our other great director, imported but no less great. Griffith is the master of mass and melodrama, loud laughter and tumbling tears. Lubitsch is the genius of the nimbler gaieties-the subtle graces of light comedy. He has taken a thin old story of the businessman, the bored wife and the Plutonic musician and made it grow and ripple with amusement. He has even made Monte Blue seemingly a good actor...