When the movies were young (1925)

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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS FACING PAGE Biograph's studio, Eleven East Fourteenth Street . . Frontispiece "Lawrence" Griffith 6 Linda Arvidson (Mrs. David W. Griffith) 7 Linda Arvidson (Mrs. Griffith), David W. Griffith and Harry Salter, in "When Knights were Bold" 22 Marion Davies, Forrest Stanley, Ruth Shepley and Ernest Glendenning in "When Knighthood was in Flower" .... 22 Advertising Bulletin for "Balked at the Altar" 23 Biograph Mutoscope of the murder of Stanford White ... 38 The first Biograph Girl, Florence Lawrence, in "The Barbarian" . 39 From "The Politician's Love Story" 39 The brilliant social world of early movie days 54 "Murphy's," where members of Biograph's original stock company consumed hearty breakfasts 55 From "Edgar Allan Poe" 70 Herbert Pryor, Linda Griffith, Violet Mersereau and Owen Moore in "The Cricket on the Hearth" 70 "Little Mary" portraying the type of heroine that won her a legion of admirers 71 Register of Caudebec Inn at Cuddebackville 71 Caudebec Inn at Cuddebackville 86 From "The Mended Lute," made a Cuddebackville .... 86 Frank Powell, Mr. Griffith's first $io-a-day actor, with Marion Leonard in "Fools of Fate" 86 Richard Barthelmess with Nazimova in "War Brides" ... 87 From "Wark" to "work," with only the difference of a vowel . 102 Biograph's one automobile 102 Annie Lee. From "Enoch Arden," the first two-reel picture . 103 Jeanie Macpherson, Frank Grandin, Linda Griffith and Wilfred Lucas in "Enoch Arden" 103 The vessel that was towed from San Pedro. From "Enoch Arden" 103 The Norwegian's shack. From "Enoch Arden" 103 vii