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...West Virginia. Two weeks ago President Homer Wark of West Virginia Wesleyan said that football in his institute was commercialized, that players were paid in books, room, board, tuition, each one receiving about $500 a year...
...Sorrows of Satan (Adolphe Menjou). David Wark Griffith, director of The Birth of a Nation, Broken Blossoms, Way Down East, the man who guided to stardom Lillian and Dorothy Gish, Richard Barthelmess, Carol Dempster, the man generally hailed as the "old master" of the cinema, has attempted the sublime. The first few minutes of The Sorrows of Satan do suggest a Miltonic vastness, but shortly thereafter the film settles down to a good little "heart interest" story about love in the tenements. Here, midst Dickens-like poverty and squalor, a pathetic romance almost blossoms into a wedding (Carol Dempster, Ricardo...
...retrospect, to cover the whole 20 years of his administration, for he had resigned (voluntarily), and would soon be succeeded by Dr. Louis B. Hopkins, personnel director of Northwestern University. Dr. E. G. Cutshall of West Virginia Wesleyan (Buckhannon, W. Va.) was to be succeeded by Dr. Homer B. Wark of Boston University...
...Life Wonderful? Down the long rank of cinema producers, uniformed in the maddening monotony of platitude and always marking time, one man may now and then be seen to step ahead. David Wark Griffith took his first step forward with The Birth of a Nation when the ranks were straggling and new. Since then he has widened the margin of his advance and stands unchallenged as Commanding Officer. This absolute leader in the film field has made another of his all too rare productions. To Germany he went to make it; took Germany's post-War hunger...
...George Washington (United States)-David Wark Griffith, famed cinema producer...