Paddy The Next Best Thing

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"Paddy the Next Best Thing" from Gertrude Page. Anglo-rhodesian novelist (1872-1922).

"Paddy (she ought to have been a boy but was "the next best thing") adores her sister Eileen and her father. When either of these is threatened, Paddy becomes a veritable little fury. Three years before the play starts Eileen has met and been attracted by the attentions of Laurence Blake. Soon she finds Blake is more attracted by her own vivid personality than by the sweet but careless Eileen. This arouses Paddy's hatred, and we get a series of amusing scenes between the man and the maid. In the last act Paddy's resistance is vanquished, and Eileen is happy in the love that stood at her elbow for many years."

No other silent film director has been so extensively studied as D. W. Griffith. However, only a small group of his more than five hundred films had been the subject of a systematic analysis. Now, for the first time in film studies, the complete creative output of Griffith - from 'Professional Jealousy '(1907) to 'The Struggle' (1931) - is explored in this multi-volume collection of contributions from an international team of leading scholars in the field. Created as a companion to the ongoing retrospective held by the Pordenone Silent Film Festival, 'The Griffith Project 'is now an indispensable guide to his work. This is the final volume of the project.

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