A pictorial history of the silent screen (1953)

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MONROE SALISBURY, ADDA GLEASON IN "RAMONA" (W. H. CLUNE) ELEONORA DUSE IN 'CENERE" (AMBROSIO-CAESAR) FREDERICK WARDE, LORRAINE HULING, BOYD MARS. I IN "KING LEAR" (THANHOUSER) Q 1 ] The price of two dollars a seat for a motion picture, which Triangle had inaugurated, was now becoming an established price for films that were shown in legitimate theatres about the country. "Intolerance," "Ramona," "Civilization," "The Fall of A Nation" and "A Daughter of The Gods" were all in this category. "Intolerance," which was D. W. Griffith's second large-scale production, was not a worthy successor to his "Birth of A Nation." It opened at the same Liberty Theatre, New York, on September 6, 1916, and its critical reception was decidedly mixed. The cast included Lillian Gish, Robert Harron, Mae Marsh, Elmer Clifton, Seena Owen (then known as Signe Auen), Constance Talmadge, Alfred Paget, Sam de Gross, George Siegmann, Bessie Love, Ralph Lewis, Tully Marshall, Joseph Hennaberry, George Walsh and Eric Von Stroheim. Among the bit players who later achieved prominence were Goleen Moore, Elmo Lincoln, Alma Rubens, Monte Blue, Carmel Myers, Pauline Starke, Mildred Harris, Carol Dempster, Jewel Carmen, Winifred Westover and Natalie Talmadge. Constance Talmadge had her first success as the Mountain Girl and Von Stroheim, who had been acting as stunt man and bit player in other Griffith films, played the second Pharisee. The film took twenty months to make and ran three and one-half hours on the screen. ARTHUR SHIRLEY, LORRAINE HULING SCENES FROM THOMAS DIXON'S "THE FALL OF A NATION" 98 MARK PRICE, ANNETTE KELLERMANN, STUART HOLMES SCENES FROM "A DAUGHTER OF THE GODS" (FOX) ANNETTE KELLERMANN