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Show ("EASY TO MAKE A MILLION," SAYS GRIFFITH - k J ' y a All It Take. Is Work and Financial Backing; He Made His Work, work, and work torn more! Get money In back of your work. Then you'll make a million a year. ! That's what David Wark Griffith says. He makea a million a year. Ha is the greatest movie director in the world. Money talka to Griffith, and for him. ' He nays: There la only one way to make any . business a, success. Get money and lota of it. You can art all the money you want, if the public knowa you, believes in you. "Give the public what it wants. It : mav he a dish strainer or potato knife. I' you produce what folks want you can make a million a year. " Yrvur field la the world. Human nature Is the aame everywhere." INTERESTS WALL STREET, j Wall street Is interested in pictures nd In Griffith. He read "Way Down Kast" last summer. The public had lecn satisfied with the stage produc-, produc-, lion twenty years. Why wouldn't a newer generation be satisfied with tba film version? I He started the production then via- 1 ited Wall street. He organized a stock r company. A brokerage firm took all I the preferred stock. He retained all U. eemme-n. The public bought $1,500,000 of the preferred at $15 a share. In less than three months "Way Town Kast" earned fiver two million. Its returns almost amount to three million dollars now. This with lees than twenty "copies' distributed. Requests for bookings from South Africa. India, Kngland and Russia clutter clut-ter Griffith's desk. TURNING OVER PROFITS. The production cost $S5i,00. The public pays "regular show" prices to D. W. OniFTITlI Griffith's earnings fero going Into new films, one of which, "Dream Street," Is now under way. The ftii til of m Nation wee tits first big hit. It cost $300,000 and made Griffith a net profit of $2,600,000. He now has a "million-dollar studio." It ia the former Flagler homestead at Mamaroneck, X. Y. Griffith ts under B0 and alngle. He Is called "The Shakespeare of the movies." His works have been "published" In almost every corner of the world in a few years. And Bill s works didn't get to China until he had been long dead. Sure, money talks. |