From: "La Reina" “Before 1913 had passed, Mary Pickford had made “Tess of the Storm Country” for $1,000 a week and Griffith, originator of the ‘switch back,’ the ‘fadeout’ and ‘sustained suspense,’ was filming ‘The Clansman’ or ‘The Birth of a Nation,’ using for the first time extras numbering into the thousands. Talk of the vast operation on the Griffith lot had Los Angeles agog. There were mutterings of race war and when the picture had its premiere at Philharmonic Auditorium on February 8, 1915, the police were massed for a possible riot. None materialized, however, and overnight Henry Walthall, Mae Marsh, Elmer Clifton, Robert Harron, Lillian Gish, Joseph Henabery, Sam de Grasse, Donald Crisp and Jennie Lee became stars or featured layers. . . . “ Caption under a photo of nine men and two women: “Early principals at Lasky’s studio, shortly after he opened in a Hollywood riding stable. Lolita Robertson, Jesse F. Lasky, Bessie Barriscale, Oscar Apfel, Max Figman, Charles Richman, Wilfred Buckland, Theodore Roberts, Robert Edeson, Edward Abeles and Cecil B. De Mille.”