American Cinema of the 1910s: Themes and Variations

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263 INDEX Aaronson, Max. See Anderson, Broncho Billy Abel, Richard, 41 abortion, 167–71 Abrams, Hiram, 23 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, 127 Actors’ Equity Association, 93 Addams, Jane, 5, 36 Admirable Crichton, The (J. M. Barrie), 234 Adventures of Kathlyn, The (Francis J. Grandon, 1913–1914), 96, 123–24 African Americans, ix, xi, 6, 43, 93, 101, 140–41, 145–48, 149, 161–62, 183–84, 187, 226, 229 airmail delivery service, xii, 56 Aitken, Harry, 135 Albert I (king), 215 “Alexander’s Ragtime Band” (Irving Berlin), ix Alias Jimmy Valentine (Maurice Tourneur, 1915), 155–56 Aline, Marie. See “Thanhouser Kid” Alkali Ike series (Gilbert M. Anderson, 1913), 71 Allied Powers, 7, 183, 206, 214–15, 218, 227 “All Star” film, 229, 234 Amarilly of Clothes-Line Alley (Marshall Neilan, 1918), 220 Ambassador’s Daughter, The (Charles J. Brabin, 1913), 96–97, 98, 99 Ambrosio, 89 American Federation of Labor, 27 American Film Manufacturing Company, 11, 14, 58–59, 96 Americanism, 174, 225, 240, 244, 245 America’s Answer (unknown, 1918), 207 Anderson, Broncho Billy (Max Aaronson), 58, 71, 73–76, 90 Anderson, Sherwood, 227 Andrew’s Raiders, 62 animated films, 64–65, 217–18 Animated Weekly (newsreel), 71, 135–36 animation, 223, 224 anticommunism, 207 antitrust case against the MPPC, 69, 205 Apfel, Oscar, x A. P. Robyn Newspaper Syndicate, 125 Arbuckle, Roscoe “Fatty,” 8, 133, 198–202, 205 Are They Born or Made? (Lawrence McGill, 1915), 155 aristocracy; social elites, 61, 169, 235–40, 241 armistice, xii, 9, 206, 215, 234 Armory Show, x, 93 Arms and the Girl (Joseph Kaufman, 1917), 186 Armstrong, Edwin, 204 Artcraft (Paramount Artcraft), 21, 193, 224 Art of the Moving Picture, The (Vachel Lindsay), 148 Ash Can school, 55 “At the Country Club” (vaudeville revue), 119 audiences, 31, 75, 118, 138, 158; depictions of, 179–80 Austro-Servian Film Company, 137 Auto Bandits of Paris, The (Victorin Jasset, 1912), 72 Bab’s Burgler (J. Searle Dawley, 1917), 186 Bab’s Diary (J. Searle Dawley, 1917), 186 Bab’s Matinee Idol (J. Searle Dawley, 1917), 186 Baker, Ray Stannard, 140 Balaban, A. J. and Barney, 206 Balides, Constance, 152 Baltimore News, 73 Banister, Emma, 204 Bara, Theda (Theodosia Goodman), 154, 162, 205 Barnett, Chester, 190 Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew), 234 Barthelmess, Richard, 245 Page numbers in italics indicate illustrations. baseball, xii, 93, 187, 204, 227; American League, 187, 204; Boston Red Sox, 204; Chicago White Sox, xii, 227; Cincinnati Reds, xii, 227; Detroit Tigers, 187; Federal League, 93; World Series, xii, 205, 227 Baseball Review of 1917, The (unknown, 1917), 187 Bath House Beauty, A (Roscoe Arbuckle, 1914), 133 Battle, The (D. W. Griffith, 1911), 68 Battle Cry of Peace, The (Stuart Blackton, 1915), 142 “Battle Hymn of the Republic, The” (Julia Ward Howe), 186 battle scenes, 73, 136 Baum, L. Frank, 42, 119, 140 Baumann, Charles, ix Bazin, André, 108 Bean, Jennifer, 68, 78 Behind the Scenes (James Kirkwood, 1914), 116 Behind the Screen (Charles Chaplin, 1916), 177–79 Belasco, David, 78, 118, 122 Bell, Alexander Graham, x Belle, Tula, 223 Beloved Adventurer, The (Joseph Smith, Thomas H. Ince, 1914), 123 Ben Hur (Lew Wallace), 50 Berlin, Irving, ix, 6 Bernhardt, Sarah, 72, 83–85 Bethmann-Hollweg, Theobald von, 215 Bill Apperson’s Boy (James Kirkwood, 1919), 229 Bill Henry (Jerome Storm, 1919), 229 birth control, 167, 169, 170, 171 Birth Control (Margaret Sanger, 1917), 186 Birth Control League, 171 Birth Control Review, 186 Birth of a Nation, The (D. W. Griffith, 1915), xi, 85, 140, 141, 143, 144, 145, 146, 147, 149, 151, 153, 162, 163, 165, 245 Birth of a Race, The (John W. Noble, 1918), 205 Biograph, x, 19–21, 29, 33, 35–37, 39–41, 51–54, 59–60, 73, 78, 86, 95, 105 Biograph Girl, 14, 29. See also Lawrence, Florence Bison-101, 70, 72, 75, 86, 89–91 Blaché, Alice Guy, 99–100, 104 “Black Hand,” 31 264 INDEX “Black Sox” scandal, xii, 227. See also baseball Blackton, J. Stuart, 51, 64–66 Blaisdell, George, 110–11 Blake, Loretta, 172 Blazing the Trail (Thomas H. Ince, 1912), 89 Blind Husbands (Erich von Stroheim, 1919), 229 block booking, 15, 22–23 Blood Will Tell (Herbert Brenon, 1912), 73 Blue Bird, The (Maurice Tourneur, 1918), 205, 222–24 Blue Blazes Rawden (William S. Hart, 1918), 205, 220, 223 blues music, x, 6 Bobby, the Coward (D. W. Griffith, 1911), 52–54 bolshevism, 225–26, 232, 242 Bolshevism on Trial (Harley Knoles...