FAMOUS FILM DIRECTOR

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17437, 8 April 1931, Page 2

FAMOUS FILM DIRECTOR

SUED BY ACTRESS ALLEGED ATTACK BY GRIFFITH LOS ANGELES, Feb. 25. Hollywood’s latest sensation is a suit for £120,2(10 damages which a young film actress, Miss .Fern Setril, has brought against Mr. D. \Y. Griffith, the film director. Miss Setril alleges that Mr. Griffith made a criminal attack on her. She says that she met the director while looking for screen work, and that he promised to give her the role of Ann Rut ledge in “Abraham Lincoln,” the Griffith film which .is now being shown in London, lie then, she declares, altacked her. Mr. D. AY. Griffith, who is aged 51, is probably the most renowned of film directors. He directed “The Birth of a Nation,” while among his later pictures are “Broken Blossoms,” “Orphans of the Storm,” and “The Battle of Sexes.” Dir. Griffith, who ,is nmv in New York, to-day described the suit as “absurd and without, foundation in fact.” lie slates Ihat lie had no recollection of Miss Fern Setril. “At the time at, which she says the attack occurred,” he added, “the cast of ‘Abraham Lincoln’ had been completed, and there was no occasion to assign her a part .in the film.”