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Acknowledgments I WOULD LIKE TO THANK these family members. friends. and professional acquaintances for their gracious and very helpful support: my nieces. RobertaTorrance Tovar and Phoebe Torrance Simpson: my greatnephew Tony Tovar: my nephew Louis Maas: and my friend Margaret Lemky: Grace Houghton. director of Emprise Publishing. Inc.: Kevin Brownlow. film historian and producer/director of Photoplay Productions Ltd.: Anthony Slide. editor of Scarecrow Press. Inc.: Thomas Stempel. professor of film history at Los Angeles City College: and Ozzie Roberts. feature writer for the San Diego Union Tribune. I would also like to thank the Glendale Public Library and its research staff. ...

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