The New York herald., 1921-05-29
AVID wARK GRIFFITH has

II ~
II climbed into his working
- clothes and tuned up his
voice to megaphone pitch again. "A
few days ago he started work at his
studio at Mamaroneck on his next
picture. which will be nothing less
ttan that grand old thriller, THE Two
Orphans" which prematurely devel-
oped the tear ducts of ones childhood.
and which, after having apparently
been laid to rest following many years
of faithful service. will be dragged
from the tomb again 10 set the public
il. a state of emotional unrest on the
screen.
Griffith is adapting the stage play to
It's new environment with his own
hand. and is planning to give 1t the
same elaborate and modernized pro-
duction which made Way Down East
sweep everything before 1t. especially
In the dam scenes. In this connection
il would appear from his presentation
Of Way Down East" and "The Two
Orphans" that Griffith is turning TO
the old favorites, which have worn
out innumernble companies on the
stage and is preparing to streak the
screen with all the heart throbs with
which these melodramatic masterpieces
positively culver.
or course. who could be the two or
phans but the two Gish girls. Lillian
and Dorothy, who can be just as pa
thetio as orphans are supposed to be
until one happens upon founding asy-
lum? This marks the return of Lillian
Gish to the Griffith fold. after having
left this director and gone with the
Frohman Amusement Corporation.
which blew up In the midst OF her first
picture with them and left the celluloid
remains strewn over the premises. Dor
othy has not been within the Griffith
shadow In nearly half dozen years,
but Is understood to have been advised
by him In some of her pictures. and so
might still be called Griffith sphere
OF influence. Joseph Schildkraut the
young actor who Is emitting magnetism
in 'Liliom'' on the speaking stage. will
play the principal male role. and this
will mark the first time that his visage
will be unrolled to view on the screen
here
Another foreign star has abandoned
Europe to it's fate and come here, ante
dating the dawn of a new era that Pola
Negri is expected to bring with her
when her smile reaches this country
personally. She is Anna Bos. and al
though she comes from Amsterdam.
Holland and might therefore seem to
be constructed entirely of Dutch equa-
nlmity, Is said 10 show as much pep as
she would II she were built more upon
the specifications OF New Amsterdam.
She plays vampire roles. whence 1t
naturally follows that she Is dark. Two
seasons ago she appeared here on the
screen In an unobtrusive picture called
THE Carmen OF the North"--apparently
for lack of n better name-which was
sold for song Of the non-Caruso va
riety and visited New York only on the
East side. so that few heard Of II ex
cept those with the gift OF tongues.
The persons who did see II, however.
declared that Mile. Bos played rings
around the homegrown vamps. and
that most American leading men would
have felt honored 10 be turned by her
into lovesick calves before the camera
or the most cynical stage hands In the
studio.
In view of the announcement that
Mrs. James Stillman is considering an
offer 10 appear in the movies IL is in
teresting TO note what happened TO Clara
Smith Hamon when she sought to mo-
bilize her talents for the screen soon
after the Jury let her off with good
scare. Every studio in Los Angeles, II
is reported, refused TO rent their equip
ment 10 her. even though she seemed to
be entirely surrounded by money and
many OF the studios could find way to
use II, now that the film Industry, un-
like most other businesses. is wishing
itself back on war footing.
Finally the association OF cameramen
"a - ttt4 4i1t,
calling upon their members to refuse
10 crank up for Mrs. Hamon, no mat
ter how dazzling she smiled nor how