Word: griffiths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...little Johnny getting a spanking. One of the firm's early artists was Mary Pickford, hired to pose at $5 per day when the weather was good. Photographs were taken on the roof of the company's building on 14th Street, under the direction of David Wark Griffith, whose salary was $25 per week. Soon the little company, then called American Mutoscope & Biograph Co., split, Biograph going on to cinema fame & fortune, American Mutoscope Co. to the manufacture of strength testographs, all manner of penny arcade devices...
...part of the program of its Peace Committee for this year, the Liberal Club will send a delegation of four, consisting of A. Jerome Himelhoch '38, William B. Loring '35, Edwin McG. Warner '37, and Griffith B. Washburn '35, to the Boston Regional Conference Against War, which will take place on Sunday at 2 o'clock, in Phillips Brooks House...
This year Washington finished seventh. Followers of the team blamed injuries to players, lack of new blood, rather than Manager Cronin. A young man with a cowcatcher jaw and an enthusiastic Irish disposition, Joe Cronin last month married Mildred June Robertson, adopted daughter of Clark Griffith. Before last week's sale he received the honor, rarely tendered a professional baseballer, of being consulted about the deal in which he was involved...
...Baptist Church his thunderous diapason is said to have made the old tycoon whisper to a retainer: "Did you bring an umbrella?" From choir-singing Sennett drifted into burlesque, then heard there were jobs to be had in the infant cinema industry. He was a member of David Wark Griffith's Biograph troupe when it went to Los Angeles in 1910. In those days his cinema-going mother always knew the state of her son's finances by noting whether he appeared on the screen wearing a much-prized diamond ring...
When Mack Sennett became a director his comedies were soon pushing Griffith's pictures for popularity. He started his own company, called it Keystone Comedy Co. Thanks to a totally inefficient Russian cameraman, his first three pictures were not fit to be seen. But when he began to go ahead he went fast. During his first year as an independent producer Sennett made 104 successful comedies. Soon Mack Sennett was a tycoon and had his heart's desire-a huge bathtub in his office. This tub was a favored spot for conferences; it was a mark of favor...