by Vanda Krefft
Island of Desire, The, 153
It, 426
Italy, 67, 244, 248, 252, 317–18, 332, 427–28
It Is the Law, 321, 382
I Want to Forget, 283
Jack and the Beanstalk, 262–63
Jackson, Eugene, 459
Jackson, Robert H., 571
Jamaica, 171–79, 194, 246
Jannings, Emil, 451
Janss, Edwin, 440
Japan, 245
Japanese Gardens theater (NYC), 79
Jarvis, Art, 143
Jazz Singer, The, 426, 429, 432, 439, 443, 445–46, 482
Jensen and Von Herberg theater circuit, 371
Jeritza, Maria, 744
Jest, The (play), 382
Jewels of the Madonna, The (Wolf-Ferrari), 142
Jewish War Relief, 231–32
Jews, 12–13, 16–18, 27–29, 38–40, 63–64, 67, 86, 221, 224–25, 273, 324, 326–29, 349, 402, 593, 647–48, 707
Johnson, Adrian, 193
Johnson, Albert W., 696
Johnson, Enoch “Nucky,” 715, 737
Johnstown Flood, The, 381
Jolson, Al, 458, 663
Jones, Buck, 329, 341, 381
José, Edward, 123, 135–36
Joseph and His Brethren, 304–5, 318
Julius Caesar (Shakespeare), 193
Justice Department, 5, 95–96, 98, 108–11, 115, 120, 240, 246, 365, 489–93, 495, 512–19, 531, 546, 550, 562, 568, 571, 601, 678, 717, 724, 732
Just Pals, 329
Kahn, Albert, 596
Kahn, Otto, 568–69, 647
Kaiser, the Beast of Berlin, The, 238
Kane, Dorothy, 532–33, 535, 683
Kane, Muriel, 683
Kathleen Mavourneen, 272–73, 277
Kaufman, David E., 715
Kaufman, Morgan S., 695–97, 714–18, 724–34, 749
Keating-Owen Act (1916), 212n
Keaton, Buster, 2, 282
Keeney, Frank A., Pictures Corp., 259
Kellermann, Annette, 170–71, 176–77, 180–82, 184, 192
Kellermann, Jimmie, 171
Kellogg, Dr. John Harvey, 338
Kellogg, Will, 338
Kellogg-Briand Pact (1928), 444
Kelly, Paul, 69
Kempner, Alexander, 408–9
Kennedy, Jeremiah J., 93–94, 108–10
Kennedy, Joseph P., 474
Kenny, Sister Elizabeth, 750–51
Kent, Sidney, 701–2, 704–5, 720–21
Kentucky Pride, 376
Kenyon, Charles, 343
Kid, The, 320
Kildare, Owen, 156
Kinemacolor, 110, 117
Kinematograph and Lantern Weekly, 210
Kinetogram, The, 92
Kinetograph camera, 85
Kinetophone, 386
King, Henry, 702
King, Nathaniel, 126, 482, 576
King, William H., 551–52
Kingdom of Love, The, 258
King of Kings, 426, 432, 438n
Kipling, Rudyard, 132n, 135
Klaw, Marc, 339
Klaw & Erlanger, 77
KleinSmid, Rufus von, 418
Knickerbocker Cloth Examining Company, 42–43, 45–46, 54–55, 83
Knights of Columbus, 233
Knox, H. G., 542
Knox, John C., 631
Kraus, George, 69, 70, 76
Kresel, Isidor, 594, 650
Kreutzer Sonata, 136–37, 159, 169
Kuhn, Loeb & Co., 231, 290, 314, 568–69
Ku Klux Klan (KKK), 324–27, 460, 495
Kultur, 237
Kuser, Anthony R., 126, 492, 594–95
Kuser, John Dryden, 595–96
Kuser, Susie, 594–96, 607, 650
labor unions, 29–31, 81–82, 250
LaCasse, William, 259–60
Lackaye, Wilton, 123
Lady Audley’s Secret, 137
Lady Bell-Hop’s Secret, A, 279
Laemmle, Carl, 91, 111, 118, 130, 371, 445
Lafayette Players, 460
Lamar, Rev. W. H., 163
Lamb, Thomas W., 76–77, 296
Lamont, Robert P., 552
Lamont, Thomas W., 551, 553
Land of the Free, 284
Land Title Bank and Trust, 725
Lane, Franklin K., 325
Lang, Fritz, 426
Lasky, Jesse L., 36, 118, 143, 181, 701–2
Lasky Feature Play company (later Famous Players-Lasky), 118, 143–44, 288
Last Laugh, The, 358, 417–18, 451
Last of the Duanes, The, 294
Last Word, The, 669
Laurel, Stan, 277
Laurell, Kay, 218
Lawler, Oscar, 443
Lawson, Helen Elizabeth (formerly Larsen), 263–64. See also Caprice, June
Lazarus, Stanley, 587, 594, 607, 650
Lazybones, 381
League of Nations, 292
Lee, Jane and Katherine, 275, 279
Lee, Lord, of Fareham, 520
Lehman, Herbert H., 749
Lehman Bros., 598, 602, 607, 621, 633–34
Lehrman, Henry, 279
Leiber, Fritz, 200
Leitstein, Herbert, 488, 718, 745
Lengyel, Emil, 18–19
Lenin, V. I., 252, 305
Leo, Ben (brother-in-law), 77
Leo, Grace (sister-in-law), 600
Leo, Jack (brother-in-law), 40, 230, 264, 293, 328, 331, 337, 390–91, 469, 477, 529, 536, 576–77, 585, 599, 619, 638–39, 720
Leo, Joe (brother-in-law), 40, 73, 230, 599, 600, 721
Leo, Max (father-in-law), 37, 39–40
Leo, Rose (sister-in-law), 720
Lesser, Sol, 367–70, 374, 463–64
Leuchtenburg, William E., 483
Levin, Charles S., 727
Levine, Louis S., 488
Levy, Aaron J., 614–16, 625–26, 651
Lewis, David, 725, 726
Lewis, Edgar, 138n
Lewis, Sinclair, 136
Liar, The (film, 1918), 221
Liars, The (play), 39
Liberty Bonds, 238, 241
Liberty Magazine, 685
Library of Congress, 655
Life and Times of Cleopatra, The (Weigall), 193
Life magazine, 304, 312, 350, 429, 434, 688
Life’s Shop Window, 121–22, 152, 321
Light, The, 272
Lightnin’, 376
Liliom (Budapest), 632
Lillie, Beatrice, 653
Lincoln, Abraham, 343–44, 351
Lincoln Players, 460
Lindbergh, Charles, 426, 440
Lippmann, G., & Sons, 31
Lippmann, Walter, 135
Little Caesar, 653
Littleton, Martin W., 726, 733–34
Livingston, Adolph (nephew), 400
Livingston, Bess Fox (sister), 19, 41, 229, 400, 535
Livingston, Herman (brother-in-law), 229, 400
Livingston, Margaret, 422
Lloyd, Frank, 213–16, 279, 294, 702
Lockwood-Donohue, Bill, 334
Loeb, Jacob W., 54, 58–60
Loew, Arthur M., 366, 480, 485, 488, 531
Loew, Carrie, 480, 482, 485, 488
Loew, David, 480, 488
Loew, Marcus, 2, 6, 53n, 58, 78–79, 81, 83–84, 164, 175, 287–88, 290–91, 366, 367, 404, 479–80
Loew, Mildred Zukor, 366, 485, 531
Loew’s, Inc., 290, 573n, 608, 663, 704
Fox’s stock purchases and attempted merger, 2–7, 480–99, 511–20, 527–28, 531–32, 539, 541, 543–64, 566, 568–69, 571–74, 578, 588–89, 593, 595, 598, 601, 608, 624, 637, 678, 698
Loew’s theater chain, 53n, 366
London Daily Mirror, 292
London Midland Bank, 677
London Times, 185
Lone Star Ranger, The, 280, 294
Longfellow, Henry W., 330
Long Island City film studios, 297
Long Island
Rail Road, 226
Los Angeles, 151–52, 194, 296–97, 330–31
Los Angeles Express, 444
Los Angeles Planning Commission, 364
Los Angeles Theatre, 367n
Los Angeles Times, 49, 219, 429, 631, 700, 753
Lovely, Louise, 295, 319
Love of Sunya, The, 406
Loves of Carmen, 456
Lowe, Edmund, 379
Lower East Side, 16–19, 25, 27, 29, 38–39, 68–69, 227
Lowry, Nelson H., 548
Loy, Myrna, 468
Lubin, Herbert, 406, 408–12, 427, 682
Lubitsch, Ernst, 313
Lucky Star, 454–56, 537–38, 629
Ludlow miners strike, 235–36
Lugosi, Bela, 320
Lumière Brothers, 56
Lure of Ambition, The, 273
Lusk, Norbert, 429
Lyric Theatre (NYC), 181–84, 199, 202–3, 215, 219–20, 222, 304, 348–50, 352, 408
Macbeth (Shakespeare), 139, 630
MacBride, James E., 242, 283
MacDonald, Jeanette, 658
Macy, R.H., & Co., 384
Madame Mystery, 277
Madden, John Thomas, 590
Madden, Owen “Owney,” 615
Maeterlinck, Maurice, 167, 319
Magnin, Rabbi Edgar, 338
Mahler, Gustav, 266
Mahoney, (contractor), 76–77, 102
Main Street (Lewis), 136
Man Hunter, The, 295
Mann, Margaret, 450
Mantell, Robert, 139, 153, 165
Manton, Martin T., 233, 525, 697, 699, 724, 728, 737
Man Who Came Back, The, 653
Man Who Fights Alone, The, 323
Marble Heart, The, 153
Marion, Frances, 225
Mark Strand Theatre (NYC), 144, 289, 408, 412
Marshall, Louis, 402, 545
Marx, Karl, 30
Mary, Queen of Scots, 305, 319
Mason, Shirley, 319
Massenet, Jules, 208
Massolle, Joseph, 395
Mastbaum, Stanley, 185
Mata Hari, 653
Maurice (electrician), 271
May, Nathan, 42–43
Mayer, Carl, 417
Mayer, Louis B., 36, 245, 405, 485, 516–18, 520, 522, 531, 569, 624, 743
Mayer, Margaret, 36
Mayflower Theatre (Seattle), 521
McAdoo, William G., 125
McCarter, Thomas N., 126, 127n, 224n, 477, 482
McCarter, Uzal H., 126, 127n
McCarthy, Spike, 34n
McCay, Winsor, 123–24
McClellan, George B., Jr., 63, 74–75, 157
McClosky, Francis J., 104
McClure’s magazine, 30
McCrea, Joel, 658
McCutcheon, Wallace, Jr., 282
McDougall, Harry, 731, 732
McGuire, W. D., Jr., 160
McIntyre, Donald E., 671, 701
McIntyre, O. O., 306, 336
McKee, Joseph V., 401
McKenna, Reginald, 677
McKinley, William, assassination of, 47–49, 195, 754
McKinney, Nina Mae, 461
McLaglen, Victor, 379, 456, 468, 473, 658
McMahon, Thomas, 270, 272, 276
Meehan, Michael J., 505–7
Meighan, Thomas, 531
Meller, Raquel, 398
Melnick, Ross, 413
Mencken, H. L., 224, 688
Merely Mary Ann, 653
Mérimée, Prosper, 143
Merrick Gables development (Merrick, NY), 384
Mersereau, Violet, 317
Metcalf, Logan F., 468n
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (M-G-M), 2, 7, 53n, 320, 358, 362, 366, 375, 378, 385, 399, 437, 445–46, 459–61, 463, 480–81, 485–86, 489–91, 516–17, 624, 629, 653, 699, 743–44
Metropolis, 426
Metropolitan Museum of Art, 193
Metropolitan Opera, 208
Metropolitan Theatres division, 484, 490, 527–28, 599, 616
Metro production company, 291, 297, 320
Mexico, 245
Milbank, Jeremiah, 550
Milgrim, Sally, 616
Millarde, Harry, 307–8, 319
Miller, Alice, 479
Miserables, Les, 214–16, 227, 231, 258–59, 279, 298, 321
Miss Adventure, 293
Miss Innocence (play), 77
Mitchell, George, 522–23, 744–45, 747–48, 751–52
Mitchell, William D., 5, 495–96, 512, 515, 571, 698–99, 748
Mitchell Camera Company, 523, 524, 657, 741, 744–45
Mix, Olive Stokes, 281
Mix, Tom, 280–82, 293, 323, 341, 345, 357, 383–84, 472–73
Model Nickelette, 55
Mohács, Battle of (1526), 14, 19
Mona Belle (houseboat), 82–83, 169
Moneychangers, The (Sinclair), 675
Monna Vanna, 319
Monnier, Maurice, 705–6
monopolies, 486–87, 516. See also antitrust
Monte Cristo, 319–21, 333
Montgomery Advertiser, 137
Moon, Reuben O., 116
Moore, Reginald, 533, 536
Morgan, J. P., 26, 63, 226, 476, 592
Morgan, J. P., Jr., 234
Morgan, J. P. & Co., 286, 290, 551–53
Morgenthau, Henry, 233
Morton, Charles, 434
Moss, Benjamin S., 42–43, 83, 289
Moss, Frank, 38–39
Moss, Paul, 42n
Moss & Brill Circuit, 83
Mother Knows Best, 443, 458, 472
Mother Machree, 452–54, 484, 629
Mother of His Children, The, 320
Motion Picture Board of Trade, 111–12
Motion Picture Daily, 669
Motion Picture News, 129, 136, 143, 184, 285, 295, 322, 350, 358, 359, 371, 380, 381, 410, 413, 462, 559, 578, 646
Motion Picture Patents Company (MPPC), 88–98, 105, 108–17, 120, 125, 152, 246, 254, 289, 486, 529, 592, 679, 693, 755
Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America, 572, 657n
Motion Picture Theater Owners of America, 401
Motography, 238, 262
Mount Hebron Cemetery, Fox mausoleum, 400
Movies and Conduct (Blumer), 310
Movietone News, 398, 427–28, 431, 439–40, 444–46, 496, 546, 579, 599
Movietone sound-on-film system, 395, 397–99, 427, 431, 433n, 437–49, 457–58, 482–84, 493
Moving Picture Association (MPA), 64
Moving Picture World, 61–62, 90, 122, 183, 198, 248, 249, 258, 273, 382, 386
Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch, 307
Muller, Herbert, 527–28
Mulligan, Larry, 104–6
Muni, Paul, 469–70
Munsey’s Magazine, 25, 67
Murnau, Friedrich W., 358, 375, 414–36, 450–51, 472, 484, 542
Murphy, Frank, 723–24
Murray, Mae, 320
Muse, Clarence, 459–63
Museum of Modern Art, Film Library, 124, 191, 206–7
Mussolini, Benito, 427–28, 431–32, 439–40, 444, 599
Mutt and Jeff, 302
Mutual Studio, 280n
My Friend the Devil, 321
My Mamie Rose (Kildare), 156
Naish, J. Carrol, 536
Namquit Worsted Company, 531
Nanook of the North, 435
Nansen, Betty, 131–33, 138–40, 142
Nassau Bank, 103
Nassau Daily Review, 277
Nation, The, 688
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), 162, 164, 326, 462
National Board of Censors, 158–60
National Board of Review, 184, 654
National City Bank, 551
National Film Preservation Board, 124
National Film Registry, 124, 655
National Theater Supply Company, 662, 665
Native Americans, 378
Nazimova, Alla, 186
Nazis, 707
Neilan, Marshall, 305n
Nelson, Bertram J., 510
Nemo company, 118
Nemo Theatre (NYC), 78
Neptune’s Daughter, 170
Nerney, Mary Childs, 164
Nero, 304, 317–18, 330
Nesbit, Evelyn, 282–83
New Movie Magazine, 659
New Theater (NYC), 162
New York Call, 215
New York City Board of Aldermen, 68
New York City Building Department, 69, 73, 105n
New York City Bureau of Licenses, 69–70, 73
New York City Fire Department, 70–71, 73
New York City Health Department, 73
New York City Municipal Civil Service Commission, 242, 283
New York City Tenement House Department, 73
New York Curb Exchange (later American Stock Exchange), 362, 505, 551, 641
New York Dramatic Mirror, 136
New Yorker, 471
New York Herald, 187, 287
New York Journal, 183
New York Mirror, 407
New York Morning Telegram, 646
New York Morning Telegraph, 131n, 169, 233, 621, 698
New York Police Department, 67, 73, 100, 119, 120, 487
New York Roof Theatre, 78, 81
New York State Court of Appeals, 111, 260
New York State Supreme Court, 64, 75, 181, 527, 614
New York Stock Exchange, 125, 362, 498–501, 507, 509, 551–54, 578, 581, 603, 641, 664, 666
New York Sun, 321
New York Times, 3, 5, 69, 79, 99, 145, 180, 191, 199, 202, 234, 251–52, 273, 275, 329, 357, 378, 408, 412, 426, 429, 445, 551, 578, 742
New York Tribune, 145, 202, 209, 262, 263, 273, 275, 304
New York World, 59, 140, 545, 610
New Zealand, 248, 252
Nicholas II, czar of Russia, 188, 249, 251
nickelodeons, 58–59, 61–62, 69, 287
Nietzsche, Friedrich, 147
Nigger, The (The New Governor), 162–64, 220, 240, 295, 299, 325, 458
Nilsson, Anna Q., 156
No Mother to Guide Her, 321
North Africa, 248
North American Review, 688
North Eastern Penitentiary (Lewisburg), 736–38
North of Hudson Bay, 330
Norway, 248, 252
Nosferatu, 358
Nostromo (Conrad), 381
Not Quite Decent, 456
Novarro, Ramon, 322
Numa Pictures, 308
Nussenfeld, Clare, 487–88
Oakland Fox Theater, 465
Oberammergau Passion Play, 328, 417
O’Brian, John Lord, 512–14, 582
O’Brien, George, 345, 348, 376–77, 381, 420–22, 425–26, 434, 451, 455
Ochs, Adolph S., 349
O’Fearna, Edward (formerly Feeney), 346
Oland, Warner, 702
Old Counsellor, The (radio show), 510
Oldknow, Oscar S., 662, 668–69
Oliver Morosco Photoplay Company, 288
Oliver Twist (1922), 320
Oliver Twist, Jr. (1921), 328
Olympia Theatres, 365–66
O’Neil, Nance, 136–37, 165