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by Vanda Krefft


  O’Neill, Eugene, 357, 375

  One Touch of Sin, 222

  Ordynski, Richard, 188

  Orphans’ Bureau, 287

  Orphans of the Storm, 332

  Orpheum Theatre (Jersey City), 81

  Orpheum Theatre (Seattle), 209

  Osborne, Thomas M., 219

  Oscar II (peace ship), 706

  Ostrer, Isidore, 576, 583

  Othello (Shakespeare), 139

  Other Men’s Daughters, 222

  Otterson, John, 396–99, 447–48, 519–21, 528–30, 540–43, 556, 558, 561, 563, 567, 569–70, 574–83, 585, 589–90, 593–94, 598, 602–9, 612, 614–19, 622, 625–27, 629, 635, 638, 641, 664–65, 667–68, 678

  Over the Hill (1921), 304, 306–12, 315, 330, 353, 357, 450, 598

  remake (1931), 653

  Pacific Railroad Act (1862), 343

  Pacific Theatres, 709

  Palestine, 318

  Pan American Exposition (Buffalo, 1901), 45–48, 593

  Panic of 1863, 22

  Panic of 1873, 125

  Panic of 1893, 23

  Paramount-Artcraft, 282

  Paramount (formerly Famous Players-Lasky), 2, 53n, 286, 288, 399, 426, 436–37, 445, 457, 481, 483, 485, 513, 531, 539, 542, 567, 568–69, 629, 653, 677, 694, 723, 743

  Paramount Publix, 694, 697–98

  Paramount Theatre (NYC), 408

  Parker, Alton B., 95

  Parkhurst, Charles H., 67

  Parnell, Charles, 169

  Parsons, Louella, 480

  Passing of the Great Race, The (Grant), 221, 324

  Passion (Madame DuBarry), 313

  Pathé Faits Divers (Pathé’s Weekly), 298

  Pathé Frères, 122, 132–33, 282, 437

  Patterson, Dr. Ross V., 719

  Pearson, Virginia, 186, 221, 251, 279

  Pecora, Ferdinand, 690–91

  People, The (Socialist weekly), 30

  People’s Institute, 159

  Pepper, George Wharton, 699, 720

  Percy, Eileen, 319

  Peril of the Plains, 118

  Perils of Pauline serials, 282

  Perjury, 321

  Pershing, John J., 196, 237, 284

  Perutz, Julius, 417

  Peter Pan, 333

  Petofi, Sandor, 16

  Phelps, William Lyon, 215

  Philadelphia Evening Public Ledger, 303

  Philadelphia Inquirer, 276

  Philadelphia Lawyer (Pepper), 699

  Phoenix Amusement Company, 76

  Phonofilm Corp., 389–90, 393–95

  Photophone sound-on-film, 395, 399, 437, 438, 440, 446–47

  photoplay, term coined, 131n

  Photoplay magazine, 141, 382, 383, 410, 452

  Pickford, Mary, 137, 145, 158, 263, 282, 287–89, 663

  Pilot, Bernice, 459

  Pisarro, Vincent, 59

  Pittsburgh Courier, 461

  Plastered in Paris, 456

  Plaza theater (Denver), 292

  Plutarch’s Lives, 193

  Poli, Sylvester, 508

  Poli Theaters chain, 464, 484, 508

  Pollard, Harry, 459–60

  Pope, John W., 666

  Portugal, 248

  Post, Charles S., 388

  Post, Dr. Wilfred M., 533–34, 536

  Powell, Frank, 132–34, 138n, 141, 165

  Power, Tyrone, 287

  Pratt, George C., 609, 626–27

  Price of Her Soul, The, 222

  Price of Silence, The, 212

  Princess Romanoff, 165

  Principles of Bond Investment, The (Chamberlain), 548

  Producers’ Distributing Company, 399

  Prohibition, 286, 299, 332, 473

  Protocols of the Elders of Zion, 327

  Prudential Life Insurance, 126–27

  Prussian Cur, The, 237, 415

  Public Enemy, The, 653

  Public Is Never Wrong, The (Zukor), 287

  Public Service Corporation of New Jersey, 126

  Public Service Electric and Gas Company, 477

  Publix Theatres, 370, 481, 539

  Pujo Committee, 95n

  Pulitzer, Joseph, 22

  Pynchon, George, 664

  Queen Elizabeth, 130, 287

  Queen of Sheba, The, 304, 312, 381

  Queen of the Sea, 192

  Que Viva Mexico!, 675

  race and racism, 162–63, 220–21, 324–26, 378, 458–63

  railroads, 21–22

  Rainbow Trail, The, 294

  Rambusch, Harold W., 464

  Ramish, Adolph, 367, 368

  Rappe, Virginia, 315

  Raskob, John J., 506–7

  Rasputin, 188

  Rasputin, the Black Monk, 188

  RCA, 390, 393–95, 399, 437, 438, 440, 446, 461, 522, 542–43, 553, 694, 698, 700

  Real Tinsel, The (Rosenberg and Silverstein), 266

  Reass, Benjamin, 675–76

  Rebellious Bride, The, 293

  Red Cross, 233–35, 564

  Regeneration, The, 156, 260, 454

  Regent Theatre (NYC), 412

  Reichenbach, Harry, 308–9, 430

  Reilly, Joseph, 701

  Reis, Dr. Herman, 101

  Renowned Pictures, 238

  Republican Party, 100, 460, 515, 550

  Republic Pictures, 437

  Return of Tarzan, The, 308

  Rhoads Opera House fire, 74–75

  Rialto Theatre (NYC), 289, 408

  Rich, Walter J., 388, 396

  Richards, Ernest V., 369–70

  Richman, Charles, 123

  Rickard, Tex, 305

  Rickenbacker, Eddie, 744

  Riders of the Purple Sage, 294

  Riis, Jacob, 17

  Rimini, Francesca da, 304, 319

  Rising Tide of Color, The (Stoddard), 324

  Riskin, Joseph (son-in-law), 690, 750

  Riverside Theater (NYC), 79, 144, 147, 266

  Riviera Theater (NYC), 79

  Rivoli theater (Denver), 292

  Rivoli Theatre (NYC), 289, 408, 412

  RKO, 437, 631, 663

  Roach, Hal, 277

  Road to Glory, The, 381

  Roberts, Grace Van Braam, 509

  Roberts, Kenneth, 324

  Robin Hood, 320

  Rockefeller, Abby Greene Aldrich, 234

  Rockefeller, John D., Jr., 234–36, 253, 338, 564–66, 687

  Rockefeller, John D., Sr., 24, 26, 28, 230, 476, 565

  Rockefeller Center, 565, 687

  Rockefeller Foundation, 230

  Rockett, Al, 672

  Rogers, Gustavus, 64, 70–71, 74–75, 94–95, 107, 110, 114–16, 337

  Rogers, Saul, 491–93, 513, 515, 544, 546, 573, 579, 613, 640, 650

  Rogers, Will, 654, 702

  Romeo and Juliet, 144–45, 200, 214

  Roosevelt, Franklin D., 723

  Roosevelt, Theodore, 95, 109, 226, 245, 520, 582

  Roscoe, Albert, 201

  Rosen, Harry B., 231–32

  Rosenberg, Bernard, 266–67

  Rosenthal, Herman, murder of, 100–101, 108, 119–21, 224n, 615, 677

  Rosenwald, Julius, 402

  Rose of Blood, The, 188, 204, 236, 251, 325

  Rosher, Charles, 457

  Rothafel, Samuel “Roxy,” 408–9, 411–13, 425, 525–27

  Rothchild, Edward S., 41, 58

  Rough Riding Romance, 281

  Rowland, Richard A., 671

  Roxy Circuit Inc., 410–11

  Roxy’s Mansion theater (NYC), 407

  Roxy’s Midway (NYC), 407

  Roxy Theatre (NYC), 1, 4, 6, 406–13, 425, 427, 452, 455, 496, 508, 525–26, 654, 682, 716

  Roxy Theatres Corporation, 407, 412

  Rubens, Alma, 654

  Rubin, J. Robert, 517, 518, 624

  Rubinstein, Jacob L., 531–33, 555

  Ruling Passion, The, 154

  Russell, Lillian, 336

  Russell, William, 319


  Russia, 248–51

  Russian Revolution, 187–88, 249–52, 325

  Ruttenberg, Joseph, 307, 319, 330–31, 333, 454

  Ryan, Thomas F., 285

  Sabin, Edwin L., 343

  Sadie, 293

  Saenger Company theater circuit, 369

  Salome (film, 1918), 207–10, 231, 271, 298, 321

  Salome (Strauss opera), 208

  Sam H. Harris Theatre (NYC), 380, 398, 408, 458

  Samson, 321

  Sandburg, Carl, 312, 325, 380

  San Francisco Chronicle, 209

  San Francisco Fox Theatre, 521–22

  financial judgment on, 709–15

  Sardou, Victorien, 193

  Sarnoff, David, 394–95, 538

  Satanas, 358

  Saturday Evening Post, 450, 685

  Saturday Review of Literature, 688

  Scandal Proof, 383

  Scandinavian Film Agency, 252

  Schenck, Joseph M., 282, 332, 703–4, 720–21, 743

  Schenck, Nicholas M., 2n, 6, 233, 480–82, 485–86, 488–89, 491, 493, 495, 517, 519, 531, 704

  Schiff, Jacob H., 231–33, 251, 290, 647

  Schine theater circuit, 521

  Schmaltz Brothers, 32–34, 261

  Schoeneck, Edward, 233

  Schwab, Charles M., 624

  Schwartz, Milton Jerome (son-in-law), 338, 478, 546, 600, 689, 750

  Schwartz, Samuel, 527–28

  Schwartz, William Fox (grandson; later William Fox III), 400, 478, 546

  Schwimmer, Rosika, 706–7

  Scientific American, 297

  Scull, George F., 114

  Securities Exchange Act (1934), 506

  Seiler, Lewis, 259

  Selig, Al, 140, 175

  Selig Company, 150

  Selig Polyscope, 152

  Selig studio, 280

  Selwyn Theatre (NYC), 304, 311

  Selznick, Lewis J., 185, 297

  Sennett, Mack, 261, 288, 305n

  Seretan, L. Glen, 30

  Serpent, The, 142, 159

  700 Broadway movie theater, 6, 53–58

  7th Heaven, 454–57, 472, 629, 755

  Shackles of Gold, 321

  Shakespeare, William, 139, 144–45, 193

  Shame, 321

  Shamrock Handicap, The, 376

  Shapiro, Victor Mansfield, 470–71, 645, 652

  Shapiro, William, 615

  Shaw, George Bernard, 444, 599

  Shay, William, 182

  Shearer, Norma, 2, 320

  Shearn, Clarence, 581–82, 591–92

  Sheehan, Clayton, 579, 597, 613, 640

  Sheehan, Winfield R., 4, 6, 118–21, 125–26, 129, 136, 138, 140, 152, 160, 168, 173, 175, 198–99, 218, 242, 248, 250, 257, 283, 292–93, 342–43, 349, 358n, 362, 380, 415–17, 419–20, 422, 424–25, 435, 440, 445, 449–51, 457, 463, 468–70, 472, 490, 544–45, 575–81, 600, 606, 613, 615, 618, 628–32, 634, 638, 641, 645, 650–51, 656, 658–60, 671–72, 677, 701–2, 704, 744

  Sheik, The, 320

  Sheldon, Edward, 162

  Shepherd King, The, 318, 417

  Sherman Antitrust Act (1890), 23, 95, 97, 114, 489–90, 492, 516

  Shermar Corp., 510, 648–49

  Sherwood, Robert E., 312, 429, 434

  She Wolves, 383

  Should a Mother Tell?, 157

  Shubert, Lee, 233

  Shubert Brothers, 181

  Shubert circuit, 305

  Silber, William L., 124

  Silent Command, The, 320

  Silent Lie, The, 155

  Sills, Milton, 146

  Silverstein, Harry, 266–67

  Silver Treasure, The, 381

  Silver Wings, 329, 334

  Simmons, William Joseph, 325–26

  Sin, 142, 169

  Sinclair, Mary, 675–76

  Sinclair, Upton, 55n, 675–80, 684–90, 693, 741, 754

  Singer Sewing Machine, 250

  Sing Sing prison, 219

  Sins of Her Parent, 156

  Siren’s Song, The, 272

  Sister Against Sister, 222

  Sjöström, Victor (later Seastrom), 245

  Slide, Anthony, 207

  Sloane, Paul, 461–62

  Slocum, Edward, 731

  Small Town Girl, A, 264

  Smith, Al, 243, 460, 495

  Smith, Courtland, 392, 403–4, 556, 579, 599, 636, 651

  Smith, Wingate, 469, 470

  Socialist Labor Party, 30

  Socialist Party, 30

  Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, 59

  Soldier’s Oath, A, 154

  Sorrell and Son, 333

  Soul of Broadway, The, 165–66

  Soul of Buddha, The, 271

  Soul of Satan, The, 222

  sound-on-disk, 387–89, 391, 393, 397–99, 437–39, 445

  sound-on-film, 387–99, 408, 437–40, 445–46, 540–41, 755

  Sound Your A, 302

  South America, 245–47, 252–53

  Southern Pacific Railroad, 344

  South Jersey Gas and Electric Lighting Company, 126

  Spain, 244, 248, 252

  Spanish American War, 34

  Spanish influenza, 284

  Speakeasy, 458

  Spence, Ralph, 311, 378

  Spirit of ’76, The, 239–40

  Spoilers, The, 150

  Sponable, Earl I., 390n, 441n, 443

  Spoor, George K., 130

  Spy, The, 237

  Squaw Man, The, 118

  Stage Madness, 456

  Stage Romance, A, 322

  Stain, The, 133

  Stallings, Laurence, 378

  Standard Oil Trust, 24, 113n, 234, 253

  Stand Up and Cheer, 702

  Stanley Company theater chain, 371, 484–85

  “Star Comedy” series, 277

  Star Theatre (NYC), 78

  State Department, 245

  State Fair, 702

  Stately Homes in America (Desmond and Croly), 24

  Steedle, Robert E., 715–19, 730

  Steffens, Lincoln, 66, 688

  Steger, Julius, 333

  Steiner, Max, 266–67

  Stern, Morton J., 618–19

  Stiller, Mauritz, 245

  St. Louis Fox theater, 465

  stock market

  boom of 1920s, 483, 498–500, 539

  crash of 1884, 22

  crash of 1929, 550–69, 623, 678

  Stoddard, Lothrop, 324

  Stoker, Bram, 358

  Stone, Harlan F., 699

  Story of Motion Pictures, The (brochure), 548

  Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 459

  Strand, Mark, theater circuit, 371

  Strand theater (Denver), 292

  Straton, John Roach, 328–29

  Strauss, Richard, 208

  Street Angel, 454–57, 472, 484, 629

  Stresemann, Gustav, 444

  Stroheim, Erich von, 702

  Strong, Sidney, 158

  Struss, Karl, 422, 457

  Stuart, Charles B., 564, 650

  Stuart, Harry, 507–9, 518–21, 523, 528–30, 543–44, 556, 561–62, 564, 569–70, 574–85, 589–90, 593–94, 598, 602–9, 612–19, 622, 625–26, 629, 631, 635, 638, 647, 650, 664–65, 667–68, 678

  Student Prince, The, 432

  stunts, 143, 176–77

  Sudermann, Hermann, 417, 426

  Sue, Eugène, 30

  Sugar Trust, 23

  Sullivan, Ed, 683–84

  Sullivan, Florrie, 98

  Sullivan, Margaret Catherine, 106n

  Sullivan, Patrick, 101, 103, 105–6

  Sullivan, Timothy D. “Big Tim,” 67–82, 98–108, 119–20, 127, 132–33, 172, 211, 214n, 242, 283, 361, 370–71, 497, 615

  Sullivan, Timothy P. “Little Tim,” 68, 76, 98–99, 105, 242, 283

  Sullivan & Kraus, 69, 70–71, 105

  Sullivan and Considine vaudeville circuit, 69, 100n

  Sullivan Law (1911), 104n

  Su
mmer Bachelors, 383

  Sunday “blue” laws, 63–65, 71, 74–75

  Sundheim, Harry, 602, 633

  Sunrise, 414–36, 440, 451, 455, 457, 472, 484, 755

  Sunshine Comedies division, 261, 279–80, 293, 302

  Sun Theatre (San Francisco), 273

  Suratt, Valeska, 155, 165–66

  Swaine, Mr., 634

  Swanson, Gloria, 375, 380, 406, 426, 663

  Sweden, 245, 248, 252, 540

  Széchenyi, Count István, 15

  Szent-Györgyi, Dr. Albert, 751

  Tabu, 435–36

  Taft, William Howard, 95–96, 108, 227

  Tale of Two Cities, A, 213–14, 258, 279, 321, 755

  Talmadge, Norma, 181, 275

  Talmey, Allene, 411, 485, 530

  Tammany Hall, 66–75, 82–83, 95, 99–104, 119–20, 243, 258, 285, 401, 615, 697

  Tangled Lives, 222

  Tanguay, Eva, 275

  Tarbell, Ida M., 22, 235

  Tarver, Jim, 262

  Tauszig, Douglas N. (son-in-law), 337, 477–78, 482, 487–88, 545

  Tauszig, William Fox (grandson, later William T. Fox II), 478, 546

  Taylor, Estelle, 321

  Taylor, Thorne & Co., 500–503

  Taylor, William Desmond, 315

  Teapot Dome scandal, 525

  television, 522, 539n

  Temple, Shirley, 702

  Temple Emanu-El, 712, 748

  Temple Israel (Hollywood), 471

  Temple Israel (Lawrence, NY), 674

  Ten Commandments, The, 320

  Terminal Theatre (Newark, NJ), 430

  Thalberg, Irving, 517–18, 522, 624

  Thalofide cell, 390

  Thank You, 376

  Thaw, Harry K., 282

  Theater Owners’ Chamber of Commerce, 310

  Thérèse Raquin (Zola), 153

  Thief of Bagdad, The, 359

  Thomas, Norman, 616

  Thompson, Bill, 140–41

  Thompson, C. Stanley, 491–92, 513

  Thou Shalt Not, 283

  3 Bad Men, 376–78

  Three Musketeers, The, 320

  Three Stooges, 658

  Thru Different Eyes, 458

  Thus Spake Zarathustra (Nietzsche), 147

  Tiffany, Louis Comfort, 226

  Tiger Woman, The, 204

  Tilden, Bill, 539

  Tillinghast, A. W., 404

  Times Industrials index, 539

  Times Square Theater (NYC), 427–31, 453, 458

  Timothy D. Sullivan Association, 68

  Tinee, Mae, 193

  Tinker, Edward R., 670–72, 701

  Tobis-Klangfilm, 541–42

  Tolstoy, Leo, 136, 139, 159

  Tom Sawyer, 653

  Tourneur, Maurice, 305n

  Traverse, Madlaine, 322

  Treasure Island, 262

  Treasury Department, 252

  Trenton Evening Times, 201

  Triangle-Fine Arts, 138, 174

  Triangle Studios, 258

  Tri-Ergon patents, 395–96, 447–48, 493–94, 529, 540–41, 599, 608–9, 627, 633, 638, 676, 693–700, 710, 714, 720, 724

  Trinity Church soup kitchen, 674

  “Trip to Tilsit, The” (Sudermann), 417

 

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