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Word: griffiths (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...husband and the rider's street girl is unsatisfying because their faces, not their wits, are in the focus. The scenes are at the Cirque d'Hiver in Paris during the closing hours of a six-day bicycle race. Adolphe Menjou, Jetta Goudal and Raymond Griffith offer three of the best performances ever concentrated in one film...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Sep. 15, 1924 | 9/15/1924 | See Source »

...George Washington (United States)-David Wark Griffith, famed cinema producer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Coming & Going: Jul. 21, 1924 | 7/21/1924 | See Source »

...styled "Apostle ob Sanotification," known to his rivals as "dat slue-footed hypercrite." But most of the time, horses gallop, blood flows, hero rescues, villain pursues, disguises disguise?all in the author's most approved manner and with the technique developed in his Birth of a Nation (cinematized by Griffith) and The Southerner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Candide Recrudescens* | 7/7/1924 | See Source »

Most of the outstanding feature pictures of the year, such as D. W. Griffith's American and Douglas Fairbanks' The Thief of Bagdad, have made much of mad horse-rides over the scenery. It causes no surprise, then, when Mary Pickford, in her latest vehicle joins the scamper academy of screendom. She plunges ahead in a wild gallop that would do credit to Paul Revere. In fact, suspicion even obtrudes that it is not always Mary herself performing the athletic equestrian feats that are an honor to the Fairbanks family...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures May 19, 1924 | 5/19/1924 | See Source »

...orchard and the Circus Maximus of Imperial Rome. More than two million lire were spent on the preparations. The story, of course, ends with the devastating event of the burning of the city. All of which sounds like the text of an illustrated program of the latest D. W. Griffith cinema...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Nonsense Syllables | 5/12/1924 | See Source »

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