Six moving pictures directed by three Jewish directors are included in the screen’s “fifty best” of all time as selected by David Wark Griffith, famous director, for the New York “Evening Post.” Ernst Lubitsch of the Paramount Company, Lewis Milestone of the Universal Company and Charles Chaplin of the First National, are the three Jews honored.
Of the pictures three were directed by Lubitsch and one each by Milestone and Chaplin. Those directed by Lubitsch that were selected are “Passion,” “The Marriage Circle,” and “The Patriot.” The picture directed by Chaplin that won Griffith’s praise was “The Kid” and Milestone’s work was “All Quiet on the Western Front.”
Sir Arthur Wing Pinero’s “Mid-Channel” is included in a list of “the fifty best plays” which have been selected by Hatcher Hughes, assistant professor of English at Columbia University and author of the Pulitzer prize play, “Hell Bent for Heaven.” This list is also published in the “Evening Post.”
Pinero, famous British-Jewish dramatist, was born in London in 1885 and is descended from a Sephardic family. He started out as a lawyer, but soon left the legal profession for the stage.
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