When the movies were young

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Biograph’s studio, Eleven East Fourteenth Street, an old brownstone mansion of New York City, the home of movie romance.
Frontispiece.
WHEN THE MOVIES WERE YOUNG
BY Mrs. D. W. GRIFFITH (Linda Arvidson)
NEW YORK E. P. DUTTON & COMPANY 681 Fifth Avenue
Copyright, 1925, By E. P. DUTTON & COMPANY All rights reserved
Printed in the United States of America
Just off Union Square, New York City, there is a stately old brownstone house on which future generations some day may place a tablet to commemorate the place where David W. Griffith and Mary Pickford were first associated with moving pictures.
Here has dwelt romance of many colors. A bird of brilliant plumage, so the story goes, first lived in this broad-spreading five-story old brownstone that still stands on Fourteenth Street between Fifth Avenue and Broadway, vibrant with life and the ambitions and endeavors of its present occupants.