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Marking Time 219
Horses with riders dashing madly down the foreground, the enemy in pursuit, then the riders dismounting and using the horses as a barricade, shooting over them.
Here arose the disagreement about the sub-title. Mr. Griffith wanted to insert a caption "Dismounting for Defense.,, Mr. Dougherty said, "The audience will know that is what they are doing." But Mr. Griffith was not so sure about it, so he said : "Now I think, I'd just like to have the title ; they may not know what I am trying to show."
"Yes, they will," said Doc.
Even Mr. Kennedy was swept into the debate. As the argument continued his morning greeting became, "Well, are you still at it, you Kilkenny cats?"
The title went in. How it would improve some pictures in these days to have two weeks of conversation over a sub-title. How a good old row with the whole force would perk things up for some directors, for too many of them, poor things, have had their pictures yes-ed to death by the fulsome praise of their assistants; the "yes-sirs" who, grouped in friendly intimacy about their director, have only one answer when he says: "Do you like that scene?"
"Oh, yes, sir, the scene is wonderful."
"Do you like that title?"
"Oh, yes, sir, the title is great."
But that is how the "yes-sirs" hold their jobs !
Before the year 19 12 ended, Lionel Barrymore had been acquired. His plunge movie-ward was inauspicious. "Who's the new man?" "That's John Barrymore's brother." "Never heard of him — is he an actor?"