Word: griffiths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which their predecessors found so stimulating many years ago. The 1920 production of Lottie Blair Parker's classic grossed $2,000,000 and the scene in which Lillian Gish floundered toward a happy ending through the ice-cakes probably drew as many tears as anything else David Wark Griffith ever directed...
Chicago's Planetarium bears the name of Merchant Max Adler (Sears, Roebuck), Philadelphia's that of Soapmaker Samuel S. Fels (Fels-Naptha), Los Angeles' that of the late Griffith Jennings Griffith, rich pioneer settler. The planetarium opened with suitable pomp in Manhattan last week is named for clapper Bachelor-Banker Charles Hayden, 65, director of some 70 corporations...
...numerous U. S. localities which maintain open-air summer concerts, only the Hollywood Bowl pretentiously labels its performances "Symphonies Under the Stars." One night last week Peggy Wood, Marlene Dietrich, Josef von Sternberg, Jeanette MacDonald, Corinne Griffith and some 18,000 others heard Otto Klemperer play Beethoven, Wagner, Debussy, Al-beniz, Berlioz in the Bowl's opener. Conductors to follow during the eight-week season : Willem Mengelberg, Ernest Schelling, Bernardino Molinari, José Iturbi...
...Century. As an art it is practically unknown and unstudied. Many who are well acquainted with modern painting, literature, drama and architecture are almost wholly ignorant of the work of such great directors as Pabst, Pudovkin, or Seastrom and of the creative stages in the development of men like Griffith and Chaplin. Yet the films which these and other men made have had an immeasurably great influence on the life and thought of the present generation. . . . The 'primitives' among the movies are only 40 years old. Yet the bulk of all films that are important historically or esthetically...
...historical researches (Henry VIII, Catherine the Great, Don Juan) is the quality of adult humor, with which he endows them. Like his previous works, The Scarlet Pimpernel is a lavish period piece, packed with all the paraphernalia of an epoch that the cinema has neglected since D. W. Griffith's Orphans of the Storm. Nonetheless, its most engaging moments occur when Sir Percy, puttering in London, chuckles at Romney's portrait of his wife, sneers at the cut of the Prince Regent's newest coat sleeves, describes his necktie as his stock-in-trade. A brisk light...