D. W. Griffith

“ In the tenement district, a simpler repast—her last in Babylon.
At the table of Egibi, Babylonia's greatest noble.
NOTE—Following Babylonian custom, the feasting lasts many days.
¶ Spiced wine, made cool with snow from the mountains.
¶ Soldiers, barbarians and camp followers.
The Rhapsode, having completed his arrangements for the journey, turns to thoughts of love.
¶ Thinking only of Belshazzar, her hero, The Mountain Girl leads on the love-sick boy, until—
——as always since the beginning of time between man and maid, boasting, he tells everything he knows. ”

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“ Huguenots—the Protestant party of this period.
¶ The great Protestant leader, the Admiral Coligny, head of the Huguenot party.
"What a wonderful man, the Admiral Coligny, if he only thought as we do."
"What a wonderful king, if he only thought as we do."
¶ The King's favor to Coligny increases the hatred of the opposite party.
¶ Celebrating the betrothal of Marguerite of Valois, sister of the King, to Henry of Navarre, royal Huguenot, to insure peace in the place of intolerance. ”

“ I did it, I did it!"
¶ The attempt to overtake the governor before he reaches the train.
¶ Her long wait rewarded, she goes to warn Belshazzar of the new advance on Babylon.
¶ The last Sacrament.
¶ No. 8, after the train, leaps with a new impulse.
Intolerance, burning and slaying.
In the doomed city.
"Our marriage will be announced tomorrow."
"This bud will blossom—tomorrow."
"Beloved, I will begin building your city—tomorrow."
¶ Cyrus sweeps on to Babylon's destruction.
"Medici, the old cat, is scratching out the lives of all your people." ”

“ Intolerance
¶ Our first story—out of the cradle of the present.
¶ In a western city we find certain ambitious ladies banded together for the "uplift" of humanity.
Even reform movements must be financed.
"If we can only interest Miss Jenkins—with her money—"
A little affair is being given by Mary T. Jenkins, unmarried sister of the autocratic industrial overlord—
¶ Seeing youth drawn to youth, Miss Jenkins realizes the bitter fact that she is no longer a part of the younger world. ”

“ The Boy's sentence.
"Please—Mister Judge—"
"To be hanged by the neck until dead, dead, dead!"
¶ The Kindly Officer on the beat learns of the sentence.
"The people everywhere are singing your praises."
¶ The irresistible impulse.
¶ In his distant camp, Cyrus awaits the priests.
¶ The Mountain Girl's bold pursuit. ”

“ INCLUDING HAT CHECK
"Ten o'clock! They should be in bed so they can work tomorrow."
¶ And now our fourth story of love's struggle against Intolerance, in that distant time when all the nations of the earth sat at the feet of Babylon.
¶ Outside of Imgur Bel, the great gate of Babylon, in the time of Belshazzar, 539 B. C.
¶ Merchants, farmers, East Indians, with trains of elephants, Egyptians, Numidians, and ambitious Persians spying upon the city.
The Mountain Girl down from the mountains of Suisana. ”