Exquisitely-costumed guests stroll on the lawn and inside the vast mansion, with a massive hallway and wide, graceful, double-curved staircase."During the graveside memorial service in the cemetery, he ground heaved and jerked from another earthquake.After all the commotion, the stillness is deafening - a lone dog barks off in the distance.Roy trembles, leans forward, and peers upwards through his windshield, glancing at a gigantic, slow-moving, flying object in the night sky.A female voice on the PA system summoned the Captain to a nearby bank of Courtesy Telephones and instructed him to pick up he White Phone.I want to swim in champagne and paint the whole own not only red, but red, white and blue.I want everybody to see how much I adore you, always have adored you, revere you and - and rust you.Also how much I hope you have of warmth for me...." His words concluded the film:A thousand poets dreamed a thousand years.Then you were born, my love.BackgroundWay Down East(1920) is D.W.Griffith""s classic, silent melodramatic film.He bought the film rights to the story, originally a stage play of the same name by an inexperienced writer named Lottie Blair Parker.