The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-20
David Wark Griffith Presents In His Beautiful Picture
 "The Great Love-" Strange Story Brought About
 By the Cyclonic Events of the Present Day War

N WAY back in the olden days of LN\ Movie Metamorphosis," when S everybody concerned was learning how. and raw material was being deftly mclded into magic form, a sturdy little band of biographers manufactured Mo vie History which bears recalling just at the present moment when David Wark Ciriffith's beautiful picture, "The Great Love-" is on the screen.
 A half dozen actors-all of whom are now more Or less famous-were as clay in the potters hand, the clay consisting of our own Henry B. Walthall. Lillian Gish heralded as "the most beautiful blone in tho world, Robert Harron, George Seigmann and others, while the better answered to the name of none other than the wizard of the moving pie turc world-Mr. Griffith himself.
 Into the spectacular and realistic pie ture, 'The Birth of Nation," MT. Grif- filth nodded his haracters-molded them with a touch little short of magical rnolded them into living, breathing, en- titles, for no Iicture ever produced on the screen has ever in any way touched and certainly never surpassed the Grif- filth masterpiece, The Birth of a Ma ton"
 intolerance" came next, with many of the cast of The Birth of a Nationp again exploited in excellent work. This picture was another of the great Griffith successes. and then we were told that MT Griffith had undertaken the gigantic t,e, e,ly 1f and baggage, actors and directors, to make a ricture-"Hearts of the World" he subsequently called it-but before he went he signed contract with the Art craft" people to make six pictures for this big organization, the first of witch IS The Great Love-" now playing at the Strand theatre
 h The Great Love- Mr Griffith has introduced many famous riclacss wnIch he made 'cver tbere," and we aye pre- scented to royalty and society women of England who, appearing in various war charities, were splendid subjects for MT. Griffith's art, among whom may be mem toned Queen Alexandra, the Princess of Monaco, the Countess of Droghda, the Countess of Masseren, Lady Diana Man ners. Elizabeth Asquith, the Hon. Mrs. Montague, Violet Keppel, Lady Lavery, and Bettina Stuart Wortey. lr The Great Love" Henry B. Wall thall, The Little Colonel" again comes into his own-with all the exquisite talent and charming finesse of the early Grif- fifth picture-for nobody on the screen has ever approached Henry B. Walthall in the particular style of acting of which he is past grand master; his gestures, his facial expression, his courtliness-all sug- gest the Walthall art, and while he has been successful and popular always in all his plays, Henry B. Walthall has never done himself credit in anything like he has in the Griffith masterpieces; as The Baron" in "The Great Love- he has role brim full of opportunities and he takes advantages of every single one of them.
 Lillian Gish as Susie in "The Great Love-" is still the jumpy, jerky, perky,
 little Lillian Gish of other days: I have never been a Lillian Gish fan; but I ani a great 1mirer of the Lillian Gish success, whatever has put her where sac |is-and she's at the top, no doubt about that.
 Robert Harro1 as ".Jim.'' is adorable; he is all that is fine and man V and ap- pealing as the soldier lover and he scored a big hit, as also George Siesniann does, whom we remember as the Si'as Lynch of The Birth of Nation Others are George Fawcstr, the popular character actor, Rosemary Theby. wonderfully at tractive Gloria Hope and Maxfield Stan i ley
 And best of all-Mr. Griffith's "The Great Love-" like all the Griffith pie lures, has an especially musical score composed by the same people who wrote the score for Hearts of the World,' and the music is beautifully and effectively l interpreted by the orchestra and organ
 at the Strand--always to me an added
 attraction to any picture-good music, well rendered.
 l The story; we'll, if you are like I am, you won't want me to tell you what 1t
 is. It is like having somebody read a book before you've read it and tell | ing you all about; but III say this
 much: It's about war and intrigue and l duplicity and love-desperate love and
 desperate youth-and the combination through thrilling scenes is wonderfully and Interestingly depicted