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...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 knows how to give...
Owen Wister, author of The Virginian and other novels: "I refused an appointment to handle funds to be collected in Philadelphia for German children. I gave as my reason the lavish expenditures by German profiteers 'conspicuous for their eating, their drinking and their jewels' which I had observed in expensive Swiss hotels. 'May I suggest,' said I, 'that before asking American help, you invite these German profiteers to look after their own flesh and blood. ... Perhaps you are not aware what is being taught about the War to German children in Prussianized schools, but you can hardly have forgotten...
...visions, true portraits of the lawbreakers, and suggested to every right-thinking person their deep and ignominious depravity. Just repeat "scofflaw" quietly several times; its deadly effect is immediately apparent. Anyone who applies the term to a fellow citizen will do well to follow the famous advice of "the Virginian",--"When you call me that--smile...
Died. Nathan Bay Scott, 81, Republican Senator from West Virginia (1899-1911), President until a year ago of the Continental Trust Co., Washington, D. C., since 1888 West Virginian representative on the Republican National Committee, of heart disease, at Washington...
...Virginian. Kenneth Harlan is considerably less a ham than was the hero of Wister's novel. The backgrounds are wonders of nature...