Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-07-12
GREATEST OF SCREEN
PLAYS TO COME HERE
Announcement Made that D. w.
Griffith's "Way Down East" Will
Come to the Grand Theatre

Announced as the most remarkable
production wit (which the name of
David w. Griffith has vet been as
sociated is his "Way Down East"
made from the famous stage play of
the same name and which will be
shown in this city for the first time at
the GRAND Theatre Monday and
Tuesday, July 10 and 18th.
AS is expected, ;he usual Griffith eff
fects and embellishments are said 10
be found in this latest work in abun
dance. 1t will be presented here with
an augmented orchestra furnishing
musical accompaniment with even
the most spectacular of stage offer
lngs could hardly afford to offer on
tour; Distressing from the stage YER
sion he will take his audience from the
simplicity of countryside to the lavish
ness OF city mansions and thus dis
play IN new series of color schemes
an array of elaborate gowns and sur
roundings typical of wealth, At the
end will come the famed terrifying
New England blizzard and the break
up OF the ice gorge in the Connecticut
River, scenes which in other cities
have made audiences grip their seats.
Mr.. Griffith has set for himself such
pace and a standard to follow that
he must need supply the most won
dertul in spectacle and the most fin
lshed in production. However, there
may be those who in anticipation of
such things, overlook the greatest OF
achievements, of this master artist in
screen production, Griffith seized up
on WAY Down East and paid a
pretty sum for the screen rights alone,
not for the spectacular opportunities
it offered. Any play that can enjoy a
vogue among American theatregoers
for a period of more than twenty
years possesses something more than
pastoral humor and striking scenes
and "Way Down East" has even in
times when most stage offerings had
hard Shedding.
That the pure love of Anna Moore,
her betrayal and subsequent sufferings
were the big things in "Way Down
East" and is what has made if endure
through all these Years, there can be
no doubt. 1t was this that appealed
to David w. Griffith in selecting It as
his medium of production. Her story
is that of a woman from time imme-
mortal and Griffith has spared no eff
fort to bring this forth in all the
strength of his vision and art. In do
ing so he has moulded a moral for
mankind and strikes home to the So
called stronger sex lesson which has
often been forgotten as concern a
single standard for male and female,
probably sine the age of sin.
To Lillian Gish has fallen the task
of essaying Anna Moore for the
screen and very likely to posterity
Hers is a more ar-reaching and hu-
man Anna Moore than the spoken
stage drama could permit and is such
a person as has existed almost from
the time of mother Eve and existed in
every community on earth where
flourishes the vanity and egoism of
humanity and the innobility of man.
That Miss Gish has made the most of
her opportunity in the role is prob
ably best attestcd by the fact that in
New cIrk alone the leading actors
ard actresses of the day have flocked
not ono" but twice and thrice to view
her work and iparvelled at the some