David W. Griffith [
D.W. Griffith] had come to Dad and interviewed him concerning some of the historical background for "Intolerance" [
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages (1916)]. One day when I was with Dad I met Mr. Griffith. I had been passing the "Intolerance" sets - the walls of Babylon and all that - almost every day on my way to and from school, and I had taken particular notice of the two stucco or papier mache figures of elephants with their trunks curled up. "They - those elephants - always seem to be beckoning me," I told Mr. Griffith, "saying, 'Come on! Come on!'"