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Show IUJ PICTURE Griffith and Large Party Aboard; Searchers Scour i i Seas for Boat. MIAMI, Via.., Dec. 13. Submarine chasers and airplanes are searching for tho yacht Grey Duck, which left here Wednesda3r for Nassau, with David Vv. Griffith, motion picture producer, and a party of thirty-six motion picture actors, camera men and others. Advices Ad-vices received here say the party has not reached the Bahama island capital. The yacht's motors were known to be giving trouble when the Grey Duct left this port. A seaplane which left here at 10 a. m. today, wirelessed back from Nassau after five hours scouting over adjacent islands that no trace of the Grey Duck had been seen. The plane will return tomorrow, scouting all the way. A stiff gale has been blowing off the coast for the past week. It was feared that the Grey Duck had motor trouble I and might have gone down in the storm. A revenue cutter is scouting in waters between Miami ami Nassau. Jt was reporU?d today that threo en- J gineers went on board the Grey Duck because of the condition of the engine. Members of the Griffith company who remained behind joined in th-j search for their missing companions. The company had been filming a picture pic-ture near here for several weeks and left Nassau to obtain additional sceivs. The Grey Duck is sixly feet over all with a 200 horsepower gasoline motor. William J. Kead, mayor of Kort Lauderdale. Lau-derdale. Fla., a town twenly-cight miles north of Miami, a wealthy real esta.o operator ami his 16-year-old daughter. Marion, were on board the Grey Duck. Others aboard included P.urton Mank, Nassau hotel man, master; David V. Griffith, 41, married; Elmer Clifton, 211; Mrs. Klmer Clifton, 27; Jack Lloyd, married; HerU'rt Sutch, 3."); Mrs. Sutch, 1 2d; J. H. Manning, D. W. Hit:vr and Mrs. Bit.or, L. Bitzer; A. Kcid, 211, married; mar-ried; 1'. Slcffos, 27, married; V. Suni-incrs, Suni-incrs, 40, married; Carol Dempster. 19; It. 11. Alexander, 47, married; Tiiehnn I Patten, 14: G. Macquarrie. 4ii, married; A. Uandolph, 44. married; Fnner: Strong, 41, married; Edward ,1'llilpitt, 4S, singl''; Charles Snyder, ,'il; A bra- I ham Hamburg, SH; Logan B. Billings- j lev, 36, and Haltic M. Billingsley. i The names of the crew of ten men t I were not obtainable tonight. j A wireless at midnight from Nassau ' said no word had Ih.mi received of (he I (lrcv Duck's whereabouts. The Grii-; fith representative here has chartered ! seaplanes to cooperate in the search and ! additional supplies of food anil water were being sent out to boats aiding in j (Continued on Page 3, Column 3.) MOTION PICTURE YACHT MISSING (Continued From Page One.) tho work. It is understood that the Grey Duck had food on board to last only about twenty-four hours and Bhe is now more than three days overdue. With ordinary weather and smoothly running engines, the voyage should have been made in ten hours. Kichard Barthelmess, of the David V.'ark Griffith company, whose recent success in Broken Blossoms, a late Griffith production, attracted attention, atten-tion, is one of thoao aboard the Grey Duck. Mr. Barthelmess was playing the leading part in the picture which Mr. Griffith was creating in florida and expected to complete with tropical touches at Nassau. NEW YORK, Dec. 13. Members of tho theatrical profession showed the keenest interest tonight in reports from the south of the missing yacht Grey Duck, with David W. Griffith and his partv on board. The uncertainty was increased when it was reported that Richard BartheWss. widely known screen actor, was included in the list. In addition to tho concern felt for Mr. Griffith, there was much oniiety over the safety of the popular leading man which was intensified by conflicting 'reports of his whereabouts. Included in Mr. Griffith's party, according ac-cording to announcement from his office of-fice tonight, are Miss Carroll Dempster, leading woman, a comparatively new comer to the motion picture world ; Billy Bitzer, 01 J of the best known cameramen of tho movies, and Anders Randolph, a familiar figure as a screen actor of "heavy" parts. Mr. Griffith has boon associated with tho motion picture business, for eleven years. "The Birth of a Nation," Na-tion," founded on Thomas Dixon's story, "The Clansman," was his first great production, which millions of people peo-ple throughout the country htive seen. Mr. Griffith was an obscure actor before be-fore he obtained fame as a director, his first appearance in the movies being be-ing as an "extra" at $15 a week. He wrote a play, "A Fool and a Girl," previous tr entering the film business, lie is credited with discovering several of tiic widely known picture stars. LOS ANGELES, Calif.. Dec. 13. The last word received here from David W. Griffith, motion picture producer, for whose yacht submarine chasers and airplanes were searching tonight, off the coast of Florida, was contained in a telegram dated "Nassau, December 12. ' ' The telegram, which was addrestcd to Miss Agnes Wiener, director of the Griffith studio here, said Griffith expected ex-pected to bo in New York Christmas. |