MOVIES HOLD NO PERIL FOR THE SPOKEN DRIVE
Occupies Different Fields of Art, Says Griffith, Professor of "In Evidence."
"Will to be south of the world? Wizard? Filmland Will Witness Initial Performance of His Latest Production at Academy? Developed by Umpire Films Are Harmless.
Compelled from the barbaric setting of Southern California, where he conies up Babylonian temples and other Wops for such bits of fancy, as "In Evidence," and transferred to one of those peaceful leather chairs that bound in the Jefferson Hotel Lobby, have been Wark Griffith, the wizard of the cinema, is an unassuming American. He is an unassuming American in State Department "leaks" and kindred workaday things.
Obviously, it would have been a "satisfaction of opportunity to invite Mr. Griffith yesterday afternoon to discuss the high cost of living, about which he worries us, when he was ready and willing to jingle motion pictures, about which he knows much.
"Herr, Mr. Griffith believes: That "Intolerance" is the last word in a picture-tusking in rent, that the United States cannot furnish enough ticket-buyers to make a more expensive production pay.
"That the Mirth of a Nation"  It is next to the last word. See above.
That the human form divine is an excellent subject for classic motion pictures, but not in the nude. That belongs to art galleries, where the visitors are not prudes. That the spoken drama has nothing to fear from the photoplay, the two occupying distinct fields, both crude enough compared with life itself. 