Word: griffiths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Metropolitan--"Hands Up", with Raymond Griffith...
...debate which has been worded. "Resolved. That the Amateur Law be enforced in all intercollegiate athletic competitions", has been arranged. The affirmative will be upheld by Major J. L. Griffith, director of the Western Conference, who has been one of the fore most opponents to undergraduates leaving colleges for professional ranks in the Middle West...
From the limbo of crazy plots and hysterical melodrama, D.W. Griffith has brought "That Royle Girl" and just why he has done it is still open to doubt. Supposing that Mr. Griffith is still capable of another "Birth of a Nation," it might be well for him to hunt around for a story. As it is he has gone to work with W.C. Fields, Carol Dempster and a lot of wind machines. It may be even possible that the wind machines were borrowed from other sets, because it seems impossible that a normal supply could create such a fiendish storm...
Whereas the melodramatic rapidly of the picture is forgivable, we cannot possibly pardon Mr. Griffith for those idle moments of sentimentality when he tried to make up for all the nasty things he thought about Abraham Lincoln during the making of "The Birth of a Nation." Not that we are against sentiment as a general rule--oh, dear no--but this was almost maudlin...
...spite of all the better things we have said about "That Royle Girl," it really isn't bad entertainment. Mr. Griffith is doing stunts for his audience, and if the story is jerky, and the action too rapid at times, there is still the beautiful and clever Miss Dempster, to make up for other failings. As we have intimated above, she would be a great actress if she stopped trying to be cute...