Good Morning, Babylon Page #2

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Well, then...

what are you doing here?

We...

We...

I can't hear you well...

But what are you doing here?

Boys!

Come and see!

We did ourselves proud.

All the Italians did themselves proud

that year in San Francisco.

We were the heroes of the hour.

Nobody talked of anything

but us and our "Tower of Jewels"

Italian Foremen With Their Workers

We worked there as their laborers.

We made some money

and bought ourselves

some fancy new suits.

At the Expo, they were showing

the motion picture "Cabiria",

another great Italian success!

There was one man in the crowd wanted

to see the picture again at once.

By himself.

He paid for the theatre and orchestra.

That man, destined to have

a great influence over our lives,

was the most famous

film-director in all of America.

D.W. Griffith.

Send a wire:

"To Pastrone, director

of 'Cabiria', Italy.

Your picture

is greater than all of mine.

"Tonight,

you made me realize

the film I am shooting

is taking me off course.

I am cancelling it."

He said "cancel", Mr. Grass?

We already... we already

made the calls for Monday.

That's right! A hundred

extras, six automobiles...

- Won't we rehearse the actors?

- Wait a minute, just shut up.

Enough!

"And I don't know whether to

be grateful or... I hate you.

D.W. Griffith."

Never mind.

Artists communicate through their work.

There he is!

- Have the Italians done it again?

- How does it compare?

What impressed you most

about "Cabiria"?

Everything!

Everything? Could you be

a little more specific?

A sequence? Or an image?

The elephant.

The black elephant!

Thompson, will you bring Mrs. Griffith?

Is it true that you plan to stop

production of your present film?

It is!

A disaster!

- Stroke of luck!

- How's that, sir?

I shall transform it!

You write this down!

It will become part of a fresco.

Then you resume production...

...along the lines of the

Italian "Cabiria", sir?

Three hundred times

greater than "Cabiria"!

Are you thinking about your old idea?

"Intolerance", I can always tell

when it crops up in your head.

Get closer!

David, what are you doing?

It's pouring!

Who built this?

The Italians!

It's the Italian pavilion,

Mr. Griffith!

Italians, M. Griffith!

It's always the Italians!

Those endowed Italians!

I want them.

They must be gone

by now, Mr. Griffith!

They finished build

the expo a month or so!

I want the man who built this!

He'll have to go to work for me!

I want the construction

foreman, Mr. Grass!

"Intolerance!"

The two artists you want

they're leaving for Italy today

with most of their workers!

I know because they are

members of this Italian club.

The two foremen who worked in the expo!

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