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...Birth of a Nation's David Wark Griffith...
...turned out, chief casualty of gory One Million B. C. was David Wark Griffith, big-shot director of Hollywood's own prehistory. Called in by the Roaches to produce his first picture since he remade Broken Blossoms in England in 1936, Griffith declined to take any credit for One Million B. C. Said he: "My name would do the film little good, and I am sure that the picture would do me little good...
...bounding Lothario, a leaping Lochinvar who made love on the bounce. Hollywood gave him higher walls to scale, longer ropes to swing on, scores more swordsmen to engage in single-handed combat. His first picture, The Lamb, jumped his first ten-week contract, under puttee-wearing Director David Wark Griffith, from $2,000 a week to a three-year contract at $4,000 a week, typed him for life as an acrobatic comedian. Grinning, he slashed, sprang and flew through such cinema classics as Robin Hood, The Thief of Bagdad, The Three Musketeers, The Black Pirate...
Built in 1596, a fine specimen of Elizabethan architecture, the House is the birthplace of Katharine Rogers, mother of John Harvard. Katharine married Robert Harvard, of St. Saviour's, South wark (London), and there is good reason to believe that her most famous contemporary, William Shakespeare, was present at the wedding, for not only was he a Stratford neighbor of the Harvards, but also was a member of the South-wark parish where John was baptized...
Veteran Producer David Wark Griffith's 23-year-old The Birth of a Nation is the most famous motion picture ever made. When the film was first released in 1915, its vindictive story of Reconstruction race hatred and avenging Klansmen roused considerable passion. Manhattan Negroes secured the elimination of several scenes that contained an "appeal to race prejudice." In Washington, during the Anti-Lynching Bill filibuster last winter (TIME, Jan. 24), it was picketed off a local screen...