Word: griffiths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Clark Griffith, President of the Washington American League Baseball Club, gave the President a season pass to Washington games. The President opened the season on April 15 by throwing the first ball...
Lilies of the Field took its title out of the Bible and its morals out of Omar Khayam. Again it is a play (of the same name) cinemized, but the maidenly morals of Hollywood stop the movie just short of the play. There is Corinne Griffith, playing an innocent wife, and then there is her rake of a husband. Naturally, under such circumstances it is the wife not the husband, who is caught in a compromising situation and ruthlessly divorced from husband and child. Then comes the handsome Conway Tearle, sweet and unmarried. He offers her an apartment-to test...
...general effect "America" is the most powerful moving-picture that has been seen since the production if "The Birth of a Nation", many years ago. And once again D. W. Griffith is responsible. His film is probably the most highly emotional, vivid and grandiose spectacle that theatre goers have ever seen. It bristles with a spirit of the fighting patriotism of the Revolution, and blends with it an intense love story of one Massachusetts Captain and the daughter of a Virginian Tory; adding battle-scenes, breathless rides, and hairbreadth rescues. It is high melodrama with the power which Mr. Griffith...
America. D. W. Griffith has given the Revolutionary War its official camera test. It screens well-in particular the midnight ride of Paul Revere. In view of this producer's Birth of a Nation and the Klansmen's ride, it might be expected that he would express the drum beats of a rising nation with hoof beats; they charge right into the spectator's heart. But after the first half of his film Griffith reins in his Pegasus. He strives to increase the suspense by drawing out his scenes, which often makes them thin, haggard. His favorite...
Married. Corinne Griffith, cinema heroine (Black Oxen, Six Days), to Walter Morosco, son of Oliver Morocsco, theatrical producer; at Tia Juana, Mexico. He is her sixth...