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The Mona Lisa of The Movies – By Delight Evans (Screenland – June 1924) Screenland – June 1924 Vol IX No.3 The Mona Lisa of The Movies By Delight Evans Is it because Lillian Gish’s life has been devoid of glamour that she shrinks from the uncertainties and perils of romance? If an intrepid producer today decided to do Cleopatra, who would you select as the most likely interpreter of the title role? Cleopatra, enchantress of the Nile; with Salome, holding the vamping championship of the ages; Egypt’s luscious queen called Cleo by the vulgar varieties and tin-pan alley. Nita Naldi? Barbara La Marr? Theda Bara—she made it once, you know. No. An Innocent Magdalene 1916 Lillian Gish Lillian Gish. Now that the uproar has subsided and the hoots and hisses have died in the distance, let me repeat: Lillian Gish. That same Lillian whose last name has come to be a verb among film followers. Famous as the Little Nell of the silent drama; the most persecuted heroine of all time; t...

“Intolerance” Reviewed by Thomas C. Kennedy (1916 – Motography) MOTOGRAPHY September 23, 1916. Current Releases Reviewed “Intolerance” D. W. Griffith’s Beautiful and Stupendous “Sun Play.” Intolerance Babylonian Set Reviewed by Thomas C. Kennedy. The manifold wonders with which D. W. Griffith has endowed “Intolerance” sufficed to accomplish something in excess of merely fulfilling the expectations of the first-nighters at the Liberty Theater on Tuesday, September 5, when the new creation of the producer of “The Birth of a Nation” began its New York run. The audience assembled there was prepared to witness extraordinary and overpowering photographic effects and that their appetites, craving lofty and exalted exhibitions of the motion picture art, were sated speaks volumes in praise of “Intolerance.” So gigantic is “Intolerance” that the spectator’s attitude after seeing it is that of bewilderment. One is stunned by a scope and vastness which paralyzes the significance of...