Intolerance
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D. W. GRIFFITH
Presents
Intolerance
Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
In a prologue and two acts
COPYRIGHT 1916
WARK PRODUCING CORP DAVID WARK GRIFFITH
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� Our play is made up of four
separate stories, laid in different
periods of history, each with its
own set of characters.
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� Each story shoes how hatred
and intolerance, through all the ages,
have battled against love and charity.
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� Therefore, you will find our
play turning from one of the
four stories to another, as the
common theme unfolds in each.
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"Out of the cradle endlessly
rocking."
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� Today as yesterday, endlessly
rocking, ever bringing the same
human passions, the same joys and
sorrows.
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� Our first story - out of the cradle
of the present.
� In a western city we find certain
ambitious ladies banded together for
the "uplift" of humanity.
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Even reform movements
must be financed.
"If we can only interest Miss
Jenkins - with her money - "
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A little affair is being given
by Mary T. Jenkins, unmar-
ried sister of the autocratic
industrial overlord -
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� Seeing youth drawn to youth,
Miss Jenkins realizes the bitter fact
that she is no longer a part of the
younger world.
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The girl of our story keeps
house for her father who works
in a Jenkins mill. With a wage
of $2.75 a day, a little garden,
four hens, ditto geese, and a
fair measure of happiness and
contentment.
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� The little Dear One.
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� The Boy, unacquainted with the
little Dear One, is employed with his
father in the same mill.
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� Age intolerant of youth and
laughter.
� "The vestal virgins of Uplift"
succeed in reaching Miss Jenkins in
their search for funds.
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� Comes now from out the cradle
of yesterday, the story of an ancient
people, whose lives, though far away
from ours, run parallel in their hopes
and perplexities.
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� Ancient Jerusalem, the golden city
whose people have given us many of
our highest ideals, and from the carpen-
ter shop of Bethlehem, sent us the
Man of Men, the greatest enemy of
intolerance.
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� Near the Jaffa gate.
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� The house in Cana
of Galilee
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� Certain hypocrites among
the Pharisees.
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Pharisee - a learned Jewish party, the
name possibly brought into disrepute
later by hypocrites among them.
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� When these Pharisees pray
they demand that all action
cease.
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"Oh Lord, I thank thee
that I am better than
other men."
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"Amen."
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� Another period of the past.
� A.D. 1572 - Paris, a hotbed of
intolerance, in the time of Catherine
de Medici, and her son Charles IX,
King of France.
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� Charles IX receiving his
brother, Monsieur La France,
Duc d'Anjou.
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� The heir to the throne, the
effeminate Monsieur La France.
� Pets and toys his pastimes.
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� Catherine de Medici, queen-mother
who covers her political intolerance of
the Huguenots beneath the cloak of the
great Catholic Religion.
NOTE: Huguenots - the Protestant
party of this period.
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� The great Protestant leader,
the Admiral Coligny, head of
the Huguenot party.
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"What a wonderful man,
the Admiral Coligny, if he
only thought as we do."
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"What a wonderful king,
if he only thought as we do."
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� The King's favor to Coligny
increases the hatred of the
opposite party.
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� Celebrating the betrothal of
Marguerite of Valois, sister of the King,
to Henry of Navarre, royal Huguenot,
to insure peace in the place of
intolerance.
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� Marguerite of Valois.
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� Henry of Navarre.
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� Brown Eyes, her family of
the Huguenot Party, and her
sweetheart, Prosper Latour.
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� Brown Eyes attracts the
attention of a mercenary
soldier.
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� Returning to our story of today,
we find the embittered Miss Jenkins
aligning herself with the modern
Pharisees and agreeing to help the
Uplifters.
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� A diversion of the
mill workers.
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"To everything there is a
season .... a time to mourn and
a time to dance .... He hath
made everything beautiful in
his time."
Ecclesiastes iii.
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� The little Dear One
having the time of her life.
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"Want my straw?"
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Miss Jenkins receives a
check from her brother
for the purposed uplift
of humanity.
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� Jenkins studies his
employes' habits.
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"Ten o'clock! They should
be in bed so they can work
tomorrow."
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� And now our fourth story of
love's struggle against Intolerance,
in that distant time when all the
nations of the earth sat at the feet
of Babylon.
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� Outside of Imgur Bel, the
great gate of Babylon, in the
time of Belshazzar, 539 B.C.
� Merchants, farmers, East Indians,
with trains of elephants, Egyptians,
Numidians, and ambitious Persians
spying upon the city.
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The Mountain Girl
down from the
mountains of
Suisana.
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The Rhapsode, a Warrior
singer - poet agent of the
High Priest of Bel.
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The priest of Bel-Marduk,
supreme God of Babylon,
jealously watches the
image of the rival goddess,
Ishtar, enter the city, borne
in a sacred ark.
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"Dearest one - in the ash heaps
of my backyard there will be small
flowers; seven lilies - if thou wilt
love me - but a little."
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"Ishtar, goddess of love,
seven times seven I bow
to thee. Let her enjoy this
kiss."
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� On the great wall.
� The Prince, Belshazzar, son
of Nabonidus, apostle of
tolerance and religious freedom.
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NOTE: - Replica of Babylon's encircling
walls, 300 feet in height, and
broad enough for the passing of
chariots.
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� The two-sword man,
Belshazzar's faithful guard,
a mighty man of valor.
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� The intolerant High Priest of
Bel sees in the enthronement of
rival gods, the loss of his own great
powers in Babylon.
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The gate of Imgur
Bel which no enemy
has ever been able
to force.
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� Hand maidens from Ishtar's
Temple of Love and Laughter.
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� The Princess Beloved,
favorite of Belshazzar, in a
room of scented cedar, plated
with pure gold, in the hareem
of My Lord the Prince.
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� A love blossom from
Belshazzar.
� Stricken by her pale beauty,
as though by white lightning.
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The brother of the Mountain
Girl, having some slight trouble
with his high-spirited sister,
takes the matter to the court.
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The first known court
of justice in the world.
NOTE - Babylonian justice according to
the code of Hammurabi, protecting the
weak from the strong.
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� The Mountain Girl's brother
tells the Judge that she is
incorrigible.
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� The judgment is that she be
sent to the marriage market
to get a good husband.
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Endlessly rocks the cradle
uniter of here and hereafter.
Chanter of sorrows and joys.
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� Resuming our story of
today.
� Dividends of the Jenkins mills
failing to meet the increasing
demands of Miss Jenkins' charities,
she complains to her brother, which
helps decide him to action.
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"Order a ten percent cut
in all wages."
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� A great strike follows.
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"They squeeze the money out of
us and use it to advertise themselves
by reforming us."
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� Hungry ones that wait
to take their places.
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� The militia having used blank
cartridges, the workmen now fear
only the company's guards.
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"Clear the property."
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The Loom of Fate
weaves death for
the Boy's father.
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The exodus after a time of
waiting. Forced to seek em-
ployment elsewhere, many vic-
tims of the Jenkins' aspirations
go to the great city nearby -
the Boy among them.
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� A friendless one - alone -
as the result of the strike.
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� So too, the Dear One -
and her father.
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� Fate leads them all to
the same district.
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� The Boy unable to find
work - at last -
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� And again in Babylon.
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� The marriage market.
� Money paid for beautiful
women given to homely ones,
as dowers, so that all may have
husbands and be happy.
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Lips brilliant with juice of
henna; eyes lined with kohl.
NOTE: - According to Herodotus,
women corresponding to our
street outcasts, for life the
wards of Church and State.
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� The auctioneer.
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"Tish tish! 'tis no place
to eat onions."
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� The girl's turn - perhaps
not so different from the
modern way.
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In distant Nineveh -
One who would give his
life if he were able to buy
the merchandise held so
lightly upon Love's market.
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"Any man will be happy
with this sweet wild rose -
this gentle dove."
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"But touch my skirt and
I'll scratch your eyes out!"
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� The temper and rough
language of the "wild rose"
prove her to be not without
thorns.
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"With her goes a third
of a mina of silver."
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"You lice! You rats! You
refuse me?
"There is no gentler dove in
all Babylon than I."
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� Belshazzar now ruling
for his father.
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"Oh, lord of lords! Oh, king of kings!
Oh, masu! Oh, scorching sun of the
mid-day, these bugs will not buy me for
a wife!
"I dwell in sorrow."
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"This seal gives you freedom
to marry or not to marry - to be
consecrated to the goddess of
love or not as thou choosest."
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� The Rhapsode, working in
the tenements, to convert
backsliders to the true wor-
ship of Bel.
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"Put away thy perfumes, thy
garments of Assinnu, the
female man. I shall love none
but a soldier."
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� The love-smitten Mountain
Girl vows eternal allegiance to
Belshazzar.
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In the Love Temple.
Virgins of the sacred
fires of life.
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He promises to build
her a city, beautiful as
the memory of her
own in a foreign land.
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"The fragrant mystery of
your body is greater than
the mystery of life."
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Belshazzar the king,
The very young king, of Babylon -
And his Princess-Beloved,
Clearest and rarest of all his pearls,
The very dearest one of his dancing girls.
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� Belshazzar, shepherd of the
mighty nation, purified by the
sacred baths and a Sabbath of
rest, visits the temple of the
moon god.
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"My masu, my hero-love."
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� Another agent of the High
Priest of Bel, agitating against
Belshazzar.
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"Lies! Lies! Lies!"
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� For the affront to the Priest-
hood the High Priest orders that
she be beaten to death with a
rod of iron.
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"I swear, oh Sar, this priest
spoke evil of thee."
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"Since when has the High
Priest of Bel the power of
death over my subjects?"
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� Belshazzar again gives
the girl her freedom.
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The Dear One in her
new environment forced
upon her by the Jenkins
strike. The same old love
and dreams.
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� The hopeful geranium.
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"I'll walk like her and
maybe everybody will like
me too."
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� In the same neighborhood,
the friendless one again.
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� Across the hall, The
Musketeer of the Slums.
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� The Boy, now a barbarian of
the streets, a member of The
Musketeer's band.
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� Imitating the walk of the
girl on the street.
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� The Boy's news stand, a blind
for his real operations.
� Their first meeting.
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� The new walk seems
to bring results.
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"Say kid, you're going to
be my chicken."
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"Pray to be forgiven!"
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� Inability to meet new conditions
brings untimely death to The Dear
One's father.
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� Out of the cradle, endlessly
rocking -
The Comforter, out of Nazareth.
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� There was a marriage in
Cana of Galilee.
John ii-1.
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Note: - The ceremony according to Sayce,
Hastings, Brown and Tissot.
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� The first sop to
the bride.
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� Be ye as harmless
as doves.
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� Scorned and rejected
of men.
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� Mary, the mother.
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� Meddlers then as now.
"There is too much revelry
and pleasure-seeking among
the people."
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� The poor bride and groom
suffer great humiliation.
� The wine has given out.
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� The first miracle.
� The turning of water into
wine.
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Note: - Wine was deemed a fit offering
to God; the drinking of it a part
of the Jewish religion.
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� Now for a time the little love
god works his small but mighty
way, in other days the same as
now.
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� Brown Eyes and her family
happily ignorant of the web
intolerance is weaving around
them.
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� Love's silent mystery.
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� The mercenary made bold
by passion.
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In the good old summertime.
For the little Dear
One, passing days
and youth have
healed the wound.
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� The end of a "Coney
Island" day.
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"Nothing doing on the good
night stuff, I always go inside
to see my girls."
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"Help me to be a strong-
jawed jane."
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"I told you before - I promised
Our Lady and I promised
father that no man would
ever come in this room."
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"Just for that
I'll never see
you again!"
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"I was thinking -- suppose we
get married, then I can come in."
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"That's me. Kiss me good
night and we'll call it settled."
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� The enormous sums supplied by
Jenkins to be distributed as the
meddlers see fit - in "charity" - now
make the Uplifters the most influ-
ential power in the community.
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� Equally intolerant hypocrites
of another age.
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� And the Pharisee
said:
"Behold a man gluttonous,
and a winebibber, a friend of
publicans and sinners."
St. Matthew XI-19.
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The woman taken
in adultery.
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"Now Moses in the law
commanded us that
such should be stoned;
but what sayest thou?"
- John VIII.
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"He that is without
sin among you, let
him first cast a
stone at her."
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"Woman, where are those
thine accusers? Hath no man
condemned thee?"
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"No man, Lord."
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� Now, how shall we find
this Christly example followed
in our story of today?
� The Committee of Seventeen re-
port they have cleaned up the city.
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"It is peaceful in the --"
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"No more dancing in --"
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"You yourself were with us
when we raided -"
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� When women cease to attract
men they often turn to Reform as
a second choice.
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� But these results they do
not report:
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� Each one his own distiller.
� Instead of mild wines and beers -
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The Boy, strongly braced
in the Dear One's sweet
human faith, sets his
steps with hers on the
straight road.
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� The Boy tells the boss he won't
need the "cannon" any more; he is
through with the old life.
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� As an example to others of the
band, The Musketeer, with the help
of men higher up, arranges the old
familiar frame-up.
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� The sometimes House
of Intolerance.
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� Stolen goods, planted on The
Boy, and his bad reputation
intolerate him away for a term.
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� The broken love nest -
The Dear One - - alone -
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� While at the Jenkins home the
Uplifters celebrate their success in
righting the world that was all
wrong.
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� In Babylon.
� The High Priest of Bel courts
public homage.
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The Priest of Bel, frenzied
at the worship of Ishtar,
prophecies the loss of
their souls and the down-
fall of Babylon.
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Belshazzar's father has a red
letter day. He excavates a
foundation brick of the temple
of Naram-Sin, builded 3200
years before.
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Incidentally he remarks
that Cyrus, the Persian,
Babylon's mighty foe,
is nearing the city.
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"We will begin building your
city, oh dove of Ishtar, when
Cyrus is conquered.
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� The Persian camp.
� Cyrus, world-conqueror,
preparing for the titanic struggle
with Babylon, in secret league
with the priest of Bel.
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Note: - Situate between the Euphrates
and post road to Egypt.
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The treacherous
priest of Bel re-
ceives assuring
news from Cyrus.
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� In his tent, Cyrus, before
the sacred image of the sun.
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� The institution of Cyrus.
� The Medes and Persians at
exercises.
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Note: - It was required that each man
perspire every day
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� Ethiopians.
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� Barbarians.
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Out of the cradle -
endlessly rocking.
Baby fingers hopefully
lifted.
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The little wife, now
a mother, plans for
the day of daddy's
return.
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� The Uplifters, claiming the regular
children's societies are inefficient, now
turn to "negligent" mothers.
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� A cold sends our little mother to
an old-fashioned remedy, condemned
publicly yet used privately by many
physicians and hospitals.
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� The Uplifters investigate.
"Child - evil surroundings -
criminal father."
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"Whisky!"
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"We are afraid you're no
fit mother ----."
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� Reporting the case.
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� Despite the objections of
some of the members, they
decide to seize the baby.
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� The friendly neighbor,
with a glass of beer.
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"Did you see that?
A man visitor!"
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"We have a warrant to
take your baby."
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Suffer Little Children -
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� Hoping for a sight of her
baby.
"Perhaps they are right and baby
is happy after all."
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� Of course, hired mothers
are never negligent.
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� A new dissipation - watching
the happiness of others.
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� In another bitter day, memorable
through intolerance.
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� The threatening attitude
of the Huguenots throughout
France is reported to Catherine.
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� The "old serpent" uses the
incident to inflame the minds
of the Catholics against the
Protestants.
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"Remember, gentlemen, the
Michelade at Nimes when
hundreds of our faith perished
at the hands of the Huguenots!"
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"And so, our very lives depend
upon their extermination."
� An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth - ]
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� Cyrus moves upon Babylon; in
his hand the sword of war, most
potent weapon forged in the flames
of intolerance.
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� Belshazzar leaving to take
charge of the city's defense.
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"My Lord, like white pearls I shall keep
my tears in an ark of silver for your
return. I bite my thumb! I strike my
girdle! If you return not, I go to the
death halls of Allat."
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� While the Princess Beloved
prays, the Mountain Girl goes
to fight for her Belshazzar.
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� Babylon's gates close
against the foe.
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� War drums and trumpets!
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"On the walls of my city, I,
Belshazzar, defy the enemies
of Babylon. Allato! Allato!
Allato!"
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� Great moving siege towers
covered with ox hide.
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� Inside the city walls.
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� Ancient instruments of
war.
� Rock-throwers, catapults,
battering rams, mighty cross-
bows, burning oil.
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� Prayers in the temples and
burning of frankincense.
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� Burnt offerings.
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"Ishtar, beloved, though our
sins be many, forgive us. In
our behalf seize thou now the
burning sword."
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� The city assaulted
on all sides.
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� Cyrus repeats the world-old
prayer of intolerance, to kill, kill,
kill --- and to God be the glory,
world without end, Amen.
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"Ishtar, my offering, three
turnips and a carrot."
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"Babylon is falling! Babylon,
that mighty city is falling, is
falling!"
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� The Princess Beloved,
frenzied with war's terrors,
watches the battle from afar.
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� Great timbers against
the towers.
212
� Into the night.
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"Fight for him, Ishtar,
fight for him!"
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� Morning brings fresh
assaults and towers.
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� The mighty man of valor
and his legion oppose the
threatening tide.
216
� A new and flaming engine
of destruction attempts to burn
the towers of Cyrus.
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� The army of Cyrus
repulsed by Belshazzar.
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� Babylon's paean of
victory.
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"My glorious Belshazzar."
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End of Act
This intermission five minutes
before last act
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A Sun-play of the Ages
Intolerance
A drama of Comparisons
ACT II.
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� In this last act the events
portrayed in Babylon are according
to the recently excavated cylinders
of Nabonidus and Cyrus, that relate
Babylon's betrayal by the priests of
Bel.
223
� These cylinders describe the
greatest treason of all history, by
which a civilization of countless ages
was destroyed, and a universal written
language (the cuneiform) was made
to become an unknown cypher on
the face of the earth.
224
� In our modern story, The
Musketeer, inflamed by a new face
wins the unsuspecting little mother's
confidence with a promise to recover
her baby.
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Jealousy.
226
� The Boy's return to The
Dear One.
227
� The Feast of Belshazzar.
� In the great court of the palace,
rejoicing over Babylon's victory.
228
� Before the nobles of
Babylon, Belshazzar pours
out the colossal hospitality
of an ancient time.
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Note: - This hall over a mile in length,
imaged after the splendor of
an olden day.
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� A golden moment for
Belshazzar and the Princess
Beloved.
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"To thee, oh Ishtar, all praise
for the victory."
231
� A gateway of the banquet
hall.
� The Mountain Girl happy in being
even in the fringe of her hero's glory.
232
� The High Priest looks down
upon the city he seeks to betray
to Cyrus.
233
"They give thanks to Ishtar
now, but Oh Lord Bel -
tomorrow Cyrus, thy ser-
vant, shall avenge thee!"
234
The Rhapsode, unaware
of the dastardly purpose,
is ordered by the High
Priest to have chariots
at the great gate for a
journey to Cyrus.
235
In the tenement dis-
trict, a simpler repast
- her last in Babylon.
236
At the table of
Egibi, Babylonia's
greatest noble.
NOTE - Following Babylonian cus-
tom, the feasting lasts many days.
237
� Spiced wine, made
cool with snow from the
mountains.
238
� Soldiers, barbarians and
camp followers.
239
The Rhapsode, having com-
pleted his arrangements
for the journey, turns to
thoughts of love.
240
� Thinking only of Belshazzar,
her hero, The Mountain Girl
leads on the love-sick boy, until -
241
- - as always since the
beginning of time between
man and maid, boasting, he
tells everything he knows.
242
"I know not why we go, but
if I don't return soon you can
use the password to visit me."
243
� The conspiring priests
leave the banquet hall.
244
� Catherine's audience with the King
to secure his signature to the order for
the massacre of St. Bartholomew.
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Note: - Councillors present: Nevers,
Tavannes, Retz and Birague.
245
"I will not consent to this
intolerant measure to destroy
any of my people."
246
� After a long session, the
Intolerants sway the King.
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"We must destroy or be
destroyed."
247
"By God's death, since you
wish it, kill them all! Kill them
all! Let not one escape to
upbraid me."
248
� Prosper and Brown
Eyes betrothed.
"The banns - tomorrow,
St. Bartholomew's morn."
249
� Candles out - fading
lights.
250
� Prosper puzzled by the
ominous activities.
251
� St. Bartholomew's eve.
� Upon the doorways of the
Huguenots - the chalk of doom.
252
� Prosper's lodgings across
the town.
253
� In the Temple of Love.
� The sacred dance in memory of
the resurrection of Tammuz.
254
� Beloved - a white rose -
from Beloved.
255
The gates manned with their
own guards, the priests are
guided by the Rhapsode on
their mission of treason to
the camps of Cyrus.
256
� In the interests of her
prince -
� A little flirtation.
257
� Suspicious of the hated
priests' journey to Cyrus,
she uses the password and
follows them.
258
� The Musketeer of the Slums
seizes an opportune time to visit
the little wife.
259
"You go in and get the address
where the kid is."
260
"You know me - I can get
your baby for you."
261
"Just saw the boss go up
to see your wife."
262
Nearing the end
of the Boy's trial
for murder.
263
� Love's brave encouragement.
264
"Yes, it was once my gun - but I -
I - didn't do it."
265
� The maiden case of
The Boy's attorney.
266
"I mean - can we hang - I mean,
it's only circumstantial evidence."
267
� The verdict - guilty.
� Universal justice, an eye for an
eye, a tooth for a tooth, a murder for
a murder.
268
� Outside the Roman Judgment
Hall, after the verdict of Pontius
Pilate:
"Let Him Be Crucified"
269
The Boy's sentence.
270
"Please - Mister Judge - "
271
"To be hanged by the neck
until dead, dead, dead!"
272
� The Kindly Officer on the beat
learns of the sentence.
273
"The people everywhere
are singing your praises."
274
� The irresistible impulse.
275
� In his distant camp, Cyrus
awaits the priests.
276
� The Mountain Girl's
bold pursuit.
277
The day before the
Boy's execution.
278
Feeling the Boy wrongly
convicted by some mis-
chance of fate, the Kindly
Heart sees a ray of hope
in the visit of the governor
to the city.
279
"And wondered if each one of us
Would end the self-same way,
For none can tell to what red Hell
His sightless soul may stray."
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� The governor unable
to give any hope.
281
At the tents of Cyrus.
282
� The Mountain Girl from a
distance watches the priests'
arrival.
283
� The great conspiracy.
284
� The Boy's last dawn.
� The hangman's test.
285
� Desperate, the little wife
herself goes to the governor.
286
"Oh God, don't let them
do it!"
287
� St. Bartholomew's morn.
� The bell of St. Germain.
288
� The beginning of
the massacre of St.
Bartholomew.
289
� For Brown Eyes,
a terrible awakening.
290
� The Dear One's appeal to
the Governor fruitless.
291
� The governor leaves.
292
"I killed him! I did it,
I did it!"
293
� The attempt to overtake
the governor before he
reaches the train.
294
� Her long wait rewarded,
she goes to warn Belshazzar
of the new advance on
Babylon.
295
� The last Sacrament.
296
� No. 8, after the train,
leaps with a new impulse.
297
Intolerance, burning
and slaying.
298
In the doomed city.
"Our marriage will
be announced to-
morrow."
299
"This bud will blossom -
tomorrow."
300
"Beloved, I will begin
building your city -
tomorrow."
301
� Cyrus sweeps on to
Babylon's destruction.
302
"Medici, the old cat, is
scratching out the lives of
all your people."
303
� At the house of
Brown Eyes.
� The mercenary's opportunity.
304
� Prosper, with the badges
of safety, goes to rescue his
loved ones.
305
� Even with the password,
Prosper's way beset with
danger.
306
Babylon's last Bacchanal.
307
� Brown eyes - ah me, ah me!
308
� Cyrus unites forces with his
lieutenant, Gobryas.
309
� The Mountain Girl's warning
delayed by the revelers.
310
� A new appeal.
311
� While Belshazzar doubts,
the army of Cyrus enters
through the gates left open by
the priests.
312
� Belshazzar at last convinced
by his own servants.
313
� Belshazzar finds only twelve
guards to defend his palace
gates against the hordes of
Cyrus.
314
� The Princess' vain
appeal.
315
� To save Belshazzar the
disgrace of captivity, they
send him back to his throne.
316
� At the threshold of
death.
� The farewell.
317
"Honor commands that you
go with your king to the death
halls of Allat. Come!"
318
"To God the glory!
Long live Cyrus,
King of Kings and
Lord of Lords!"
319
� Justice and restoration.
320
When cannon and prison bars
wrought in the fires of intolerance -
321
� And perfect love shall bring
peace forevermore.
322
� Instead of prison walls -
Bloom flowery fields.
323
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TRADE MARK REGISTERED
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Photographed by G. W. Bitzer
Associate Photographer Karl Brown
Art Director Walter L. Hall
Master Builder Frank Wortman
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CAST OF CHARACTERS
The Modern Story
The Dear One . . . . . Mae Marsh
The Boy . . . . . . Robert Harron
The Girl's Father . . . Fred Turner
Jenkins . . . . . . Sam de Grasse
Mary Jenkins . . . . . Vera Lewis
The "Uplifters" and "Reformers": Mary
Alden, Eleanor Washington, Pearl
Elmore, Lucille Brown, Mrs. Arthur
Mackley
The Friendless One . Miriam Cooper
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The Musketeer of the Slums . Walter Long
The Kindly Policeman . Tom Wilson
The Governor . . . . Ralph Lewis
The Judge . . . . . Lloyd Ingraham
Father Fathley . Rev. A. W. McClure
Prison Guard . . . . J. P. McCarthy
The Friendly Neighbor . Dave Davidson
The Strike Leader . . . Monte Blue
Debutante . . . . Marguerite Marsh
A Crook . . . . . . Tod Browning
Another Crook . . . Edward Dillon
Bartender . . . . . . . Billy Quirk
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The Judean Story
The Nazarene . . . . Howard Gaye
Mary . . . . . . . Lillian Langdon
Mary Magdalene . . . . Olga Grey
First Pharisee . . Gunther von Ritzau
Second Pharisee . Erich von Stroheim
Bride of Cana . . . . . Bessie Love
The Bride's Father . . William Brown
The Bridegroom . . . George Walsh
A Wedding Guest . W. S. Van Dyke
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The French Story
Brown Eyes . . . . Margery Wilson
Prosper Latour . . . Eugene Pallette
Brown Eyes' Father . Spottiswoode Aitken
Her Mother . . . . Ruth Handford
The Mercenary . . . . A. D. Sears
Charles IX . . . . . Frank Bennett
Duc d'Anjou . . . Maxfield Stanley
Catherine de Medici . Josephine Crowell
Marguerite
de Valois . . Constance Talmadge
Henry of Navarre . . W. E. Lawrence
Admiral Coligny . . Joseph Henaberry
A Page . . . . . . Chandler House
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The Babylonian Story
The Mountain Girl . Constance Talmadge
The Rhapsode . . . . Elmer Clifton
Prince Belshazzar . . . . Alfred Paget
The Princess Beloved . . Seena Owen
King Nabonidus . . . Carl Stockdale
High Priest of Bell . . Tully Marshall
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and,
linking the stories,
the woman who rocks the cradle,
Lillian Gish
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