Word: griffiths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...speakers' table, looking like a rather grouchy old professor, sat famed oldtime Director David Wark ("The Old Master") Griffith, who climaxed the affairs at 1 a. m. by awarding the three top prizes. Last week was a big one for Direc tor Griffith, now 56, comparatively poor, and apparently through with the cinema. In Manhattan two audiences invited by the Museum of Modern Art to its series of cinema classics agreed that his Intolerance (which, contrary to legend that it cost $2,500,000, was made for $330,000 in 1916) compared favorably in many ways with modern efforts...
Irate minority stockholders in two investment trusts made attempts in Manhattan last week to oust their respective managements. A stockholders committee headed by Stockbroker Sanford Griffith and Thomas E. Brittingham Jr. of the famed Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation wanted to turn out the management of Fourth National Investors, a $22,000,000 trust run by Fred Y. Presley, who also promoted and is still president of National Investors, Second National Investors, Third National Investors. There was little complaint about Mr. Presley's investment record, which is better than the sorry average (TIME, March 9). Though questioning management relations between...
Divorced. Linda Avidson Griffith-;, by David Lewelyn Wark Griffith, 56, onetime No. 1 film director (Birth of a Nation, Abraham Lincoln); after a 25-yeaf separation; in LaGrange...
...Sunday strode up to Jesus Christ, shook Him by the hand and said: "Jesus, thank you. I'm glad you honored me with salvation. I'm glad you honored me with the privilege of preaching your gospel. . . . Now, Jesus, I'd like to see old Aunty Griffith...
When old Aunty Griffith appeared, she asked: ''How are you, William? When did you leave the earth...