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The Real Story of ^ ■ "Intolerance"
AN riXCLUSIVli ACCOUNT Ol 1 1 II INChPTION. CREATION AND PHILOSOPHY OV 1 1 II ORLATEST SPI< IACLI l\TR .SHOWN IN ANY PLAYHOUSI
By Henry Stephen Gordon
Photographs by Raymond Stagg, ond scenes from the ploj
EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the spectacular, factful conclusion of Mr. Gordon's story on the career and achievements of David Wark Griffith. "Intolerance" has already been produced in the metropolis, and the cool New York critics have spun far more ardent typewriter rhapsodies about it than Mr. Gordon has here woven. Photoplay feels tint even as "Intolerance" itself is the most sensational artistic achievement of the year, so this story — an authoritative, unduplicated narrative by the man who knows Griffith better than anyone else — is the greatest magazine story of the month, anywhere. Do not mistake this for Photoplay's critical review of the work. Next month Julian Johnson will give it an elaborate analysis and description as a feature of "The Shadow Stage."
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FTEN in my atrabiliar moods when I read of pompous ceremonials." writes Herr Diogenes Teufelsdrockh, . . . "and how the ushers, macers, and pursuivants are all in waiting ; how Duke this is presented by Arch Duke that, and Colonel A by General 15. and innumerable Bishops, Admirals, and miscellaneous Functionaries are advancing gallantly to the Anointed Presence : and I strive in my remote privacy to forma clear picture of that solemnity. — on a sudden as by some enchanter's wand the, — shall 1 speak it? the Clothes fly off the whole dramatic corps; and Dukes. Grandees, Bishops, Generals. Anointed Presence itself, every mother's son of them, stand straddling there, not a shirt on them : and I know not whether to weep or laugh."
That quality of seeing mankind stripped of its concealments which Herr Teufelsdrockh had in company with Rabelais, is the fearless theme of D. W. Griffith's latest, and he savs his last, photodrama. — '"Intolerance."
"The Birth of a Nation" made him a rich man; money, gold, at once began to flow toward him. over his shoulders, — would it submerge him?
Would it drown the poetry which he had coined into tremendous dividends?
Could he write a second camera epic?
He has.
.There is no provision that can determine the event of an effort which depends on the mood and perception of the vast many; "Intolerance" when this is printed will have made itself, or will have unmade Griffith, judged by the peerless jurv of dol
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tiny creature creeping past the pedestal of this column is a man over six feet tall.
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