Word: griffiths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Brigadier-General Palmer E. Pierce and Major John L. Griffith are typical of the faction that bitterly opposes the salaried player. In calling a meeting of the National Collegiate Athletic Association of which he is president, Mr. Pierce said that "efforts to popularize professional football brings the country face to face with even greater difficulties than for merly were encountered in keeping up amateur standards." He also intimates that in the forthcoming meeting of the Association, much attention will be paid to the so-called "menace" of "pro" football...
...Major Griffith, Athletic Commissioner of the Big Ten, is of the same opinion, and strenuously objected to the recent desertion to professional ranks of Harold Grange...
...began to fall away, Passions for Men. It is the story of a humble shop clerk who lost his wife and his money, and finally got what he wanted. It makes a pretty good picture, particularly since it is played by Lewis Stone, Percy Marmont, Alma Rubens and Raymond Griffith...
Satan in Sables. Good old cinema staple is hereby rewoven into a routine romance of Paris. The presence of Lowell Sherman, lurid villain of many a legitimate production (and of D. W. Griffith's Way Down East), is the only unusual feature. He plays a Russian millionaire on the loose in the French capital. There is the usual sweet and simple cocotte from Montmartre to enthrall him. If you like Hm on the stage, you will approve him in this movie-if you like the movies...
...present opus Mr. Griffith fools around with a European kingdom, chases an American girl all over Europe, runs into a nasty revolution. Most of these things have been done before?most recently by Eric von Stroheim's The Merry Widow...