When the movies were young (1925)

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36 When the Movies were Young feet long was produced and given the title "When Knighthood Was in Flower/' The descriptive line in the Biograph catalogue of 1902 (for it was a Biograph production) reads: Emperor William of Germany and noblemen of the Order of St. John. The Emperor is the last in the procession. So you see the Ex-Kaiser beat them all to it, even D. W. Griffith and W. R. Hearst, though I'll say that Mr. Hearst's is the best of the "Flowering Knighthoods" to date, and will probably continue so. The story has now been done often enough to be allowed a rest. But it was Mr. Griffith's big dream, very early in his movie career, along in 191 1, to screen some day a great and wonderful movie of the Charles Major play that launched Julia Marlowe on her brilliant career. And in this play which he had decided could be produced nowhere but in England, no less a person than E. H. Sothern was to appear as Charles Brandon, and she who is writing this was to be Mary Tudor. Dreams and dreams we had long ago, but this was one of the best dreams that did not come true.