Word: griffiths
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lillian Gish and David Wark Griffith met in Mary Pickford's dressing-room in the old Biograph studio. Lillian Gish had left Massillon, Ohio, to go on the stage with her sister Dorothy. As a fairy in The Good Little Devil she was lifted across the stage by a wire which broke one night and dropped her on the floor. She burst into tears, later rewarded with a salary which gave each trembling drop the literal value of a pearl...
...Griffith made her an old woman-the pinchfaced mother in Judith of Bethulia, Intolerance; he made her an outcast girl in Way Down East, Colonel Cameron's sweetheart in Birth of a Nation. She went with him from Biograph to Reliance, Majestic, Fine Arts, Artcraft, First National, United Artists. Somehow, no matter how bad the scenario was, her intelligence brought to certain moments and situations that reality which is the definition of great acting and which Miss Gish's famous frailty, her dimples, her soft, elliptical face, and her pale hair down to her waist could not keep...
Battle of the Sexes. Fifteen years ago D. W. Griffith presented a picture called The Battle of the Sexes starring Dorothy Gish, now refilmed with modern casts and setting and the original story of a businessman harassed by a professional sweetheart and a tearful wife. Bedroom antics by Don Alvarado and the squirmings on a cushioned floor of Miss Phyllis Haver's stomach supplied an element which kept fingers busy in the box-offices of theatres which showed this picture last week...
Three weeks ago (TIME, Sept. 17), Jews celebrated Yom Kippur, their Day of Atonement. On the eve of Yom Kippur, in Massena. N. Y., Barbara Griffith, 4, disappeared. Her parents asked policemen to find her. At about this time, someone remembered the legend of the sacrifice. A State police trooper named H. M. McCann summoned Rabbi Berel Brennglass to headquarters where, in accordance with an arrangement previously made with Mayor W. Gilbert Hawes, he questioned the rabbi as follows...
...tomorrow a big holiday, a fast day? Can you give any information as to whether your people in the old country offer human sacrifices?" A crowd of several hundred people were waiting outside the police headquarters; they dispersed, gradually and angrily, when they heard that Barbara Griffith had been found walking in a forest, and that the rabbi had denied that Jews murdered children, or, nowadays, even animals, in any of their ritual...