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HEILTG \YILIj STAGE i EATCRI:**ffeart’a of the World Stttso n's Greatest Film Sncccwt*WbPn “Hearts of the World I® »bown for th§ first time at the HelHg Theater for a two week*®* rngageriient. starting July 2*# (hare uill be fvw in. the* audience who will r*±ii*« that one single scene of this master production was rehearsed 12? tlm«s before David Ward Griffith called ‘'Camera.'Many will think that a scene re-qa!rir.sr bo many rehearsals mu^i b*quit© magnificent* a kind of panoramic spectacle Ilk© the massive roupInga In “The Birth of a Xatlon’* or **I'ntol-rram’t?, Griffith's two former produc* non*. Contrary to this* th* scene upon which io much time wa* ?pent I* neither elaborate not* magnificent, and still everyone who sees It will realize why ao much time was consumed lt;m it ar.d why the great director attached so much importance to it.It la said on good authority that for two years Ur, Griffith planned to get the particular expression he sought from the faces of the talented juv*. nl!« play'm, LIU!an Givh and Hobart Harron, Untold or unwarned, probablynobody would single out thia one scene a» th* work of nearly two years, yet everybody will note the expression of reverence on th« faces of the two players ae Mr. Harrou *llp« the b»nd of gold on the allm finger of MSse Gish, and, looking upwond. says: “If we are taken, Oolt;i will know that we died man and wife/'This scene was rehearsed two year* a^ In fjitl* It waa the flr*t acene re-j hearsed and the last to be “shot. In the Interim, during all the Ioih? weary month# on the batleflelds of France, thla scene was gone over again and Again. illftw Gish herself tells of r«?~ hearing it a’so ;n ii London bate!, on the boat to Franco, on the battlefields, with shells screaming overhead; on the way back to A meric.*, in a NVw York hotel, and on the train to L*a Angeles. But* like the searcher of old. Griffith did not find hla Holy Grail until one day upon hi* return to his home in Fasadena., C*L When the three wereagain going over the wedding com*paet, he caught Just a fleeting gHmpto of the expression he wanted.
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Portland Sunday Oregonian
Portland, Oregon, US
Sun, Jul 14, 1918
Page 46
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