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Black Oxen. The wave of comment blown up by Mrs. Gertrude Atherton's novel washed it immediately into the movies. To play it, Corinne Griffith and Conway Tearle were summoned. They managed to do some rather effective acting in a moderately uninteresting play. The plot, of course, discusses the rejuvenation of Mme. Zattiany and her absorbing effect on Lee Clavering, newspaper columnist...
Divorced. Miss Corinne Griffith, cinema actress, from William M. Campbell, cinema director, at Mineral Wells...
...last moment to correct the work of a loose-minded scenario writer. And so poring, five hundred years hence, over dusty celluloid strips, the student might come suddenly upon a treasure a bit of dialogue by Ince, or an art title in the hand of D. W. Griffith...
...Michael Collins,* First Commander-in-chief of the Free State Army, was celebrated by an impressive ceremony in Dublin. Five thousand troops were assembled in Phoenix Park when President Cosgrave handed to General McMahon, Chief of Staff, a flag which had been blessed by Dominick Ryan, Chaplain of the Griffith Barracks. Aeroplanes took part in the celebration and there was a highly impressive march through the city...
Referring to the man he killed (Schmidt, a Swiss), Bergdoll said: " He was a juicy thug the American Legion hired in Paris under Lieutenant Griffith. ... He was promised $1,000 to get me dead or alive. Americans don't dare try these jobs themselves. They get the worst thugs in Europe. I could have got out of the war by paying $15,000. Why don't they allow me to return...