stage décor, C. on, 253–4
stage fright, C. and, 44, 99, 122
Stage Hand, The, C. directs for
Keystone, 157
Stanislavski, Constantin, and ‘inner
truth’, 157
Stein, Gertrude, 302–3
Steinbeck, John, 383–4
Steinbeck, Mrs John, 384
Sterling, Ford (Keystone comedian).
C. replaces, 142; ‘his style did not
suit me’, 143, 146; his decline
after leaving Keystone, 159;
and Sam Bernard, 257
Stevens, Emily (Amer. actress), 257
Stewart, Donald Ogden, 467–544
‘stewed eels and treacle pudding’, 268
Straker (W.), Ltd (stationers and
printers), C.’s job at, 61–2
Stratford-on-Avon, C. visits 358–9
Strauss, Carl (cowboy film-actor), 169
Stravinsky, Igor, 390–91
Submarine Pilot, The (Sydney Chaplin’s
film), 159
subtlety and restraint (in acting), C.
and, 256
suicide, comedians and, 46–7
Sullivan and Considine (Amer.
theatre owners), 121; C. on
circuit: ‘we passed muster’, 124
Sulzberger, Arthur, 395–8
Sunday dinner as respectability
symbol, 50
Sunnyside: (‘like pulling teeth’), 230
Sutter’s CoW(Eisenstein’s ‘very fine film’), 320
Swaffer, Hannen, 384
Swanson, Gloria, 165; in Elinor
Glyn film, 202; and Pola Negri, 295
Sweet, Blanche, 155
Swope, Bayard, 285, 444
Tagg’s Island (river Thames),
Karno’s houseboat at, 133
talking films, C.’s attitude to, 321–3, 360, 374, 382
Talleyrand-Périgord, Marquis de, 276
Talmadge, Norma, 291
Tankard, the (public house,
Kennington Road), 9, 265
Tannhâuser (Wagner), C. and, 136
Tate’s Café (San Francisco), 169
Taylor, Frank, and Dylan Thomas 428 ‘tears as well as laughter’ (in C.’s films), 155
Teddy boys, C.’s defence of, 93
Tellegen, Lou, 155
Terry, Dame Ellen, 257
Thalberg, Irving, 294 theatre, the,
C’s early interest in, 21, 41, 48, 93; his views on, 250 ff
theatricialism, C. on, 252
thinking, C. on, 247
Thomas, Dylan, C. and 428–9
Thomas, Olive, 226, 243
Thorndike, Dame Sybil, 257
Three Stags, the (public house,
Kennington Road), 58
time-saving: ‘the basic virtue’ in film making, 250
Tinney, Frank, 257
Tivoli Music Hall (London), C. appears at, 103
touring companies, C.’s loneliness in, 83–4
toy-making, C.’s job in, 65
tragedy and comedy, combination of, 40
‘tramp character’, the, 44, 145; origin of the costume, 145; ‘growing more complex’, 208; dilemma of talking films and, 360, 382
Tree, Sir Herbert Beerbohm, 194–7, 258
Tree, Iris, 196–7
tricky effects: ‘I loathe them’, 250
truth, C. on, 255, 286
Turpin, Ben, 165, 169
Twain, Mark, C. and works of, 142
Twelve Just Men (C. writes sketch), 97
Twenty Minutes of Love
‘I made it in an afternoon’, 157; music sets mood for, 209
Un-American Activities, Committee on, 439, 458
United Artists,
formation of, 221; and mergers, 292; alarm over The Great Dictator,387; sale of, 446; list of C’s films for, 480
Universal Company, 160
Valentino, Rudolph, 186–7, 312
Vanbrugh, Dame Irene, 89, 257
Vanderbilt, Cornelius, and German
concentration camps, 316
Variety (Amer, stage periodical), 124, 304
vaudeville, English and American
compared, 135
Venice, C. on, 352
Vienna, romance in, 352
Vierte, Salka, 428
violence in the theatre, C. on, 429
Wagner, Rob, 214–16 passim
Wainewright, J. G., 254
Wallace, Mina, 413–14
Waller, Lewis, 91
war-wounded, C. and the, 277, 386
Ward, Fanny, 204
Warfield, David, 256
Warner Brothers, and Hearst Productions, 314; first talking picture, 321
Watson’s Beef Trust (Amer, burlesque show), 126
Weber, Lois, 226
Weiller, Commandant Paul-Louis, 276, 473
Weldon, Harry, 92; and C, in The Football Match, 98-101, 114
Welles, Orson, 410; and idea for
Monsieur Verdoux, 412–13
Wells, H. G., 259, 268; C and, 270–71, 277–8, 341–4 passim; on sex, 354; work output, 384
West, Rebecca, 271
Wharton, Edith, 200
Whimsical Walker, 121 Whispering Chorus, The (De Mille film), 173
Whitman, Walt: ’Leaves of Grass annoyed me’, 135
Williams, Bransby, 47
Williams, J. D. (of First National), 219; ‘buttered me up’, 243
Williams, Percy (Amer, theatre- owner, 121
Willkie, Wendell, 404
Wilson, Lady Sarah, 276
Wilson, Woodrow, 214
Winchell, Walter, in juvenile music-hall troupe, 123
Winter, Ella, 567
Woman of Paris, A, 252–3
wood-chopper, C.’s job as, 71–3, 265
Woollcott, Alexander, 384
Wow-wows, The (Karno sketch),
C. on U.S.A. tour in, 117–18, 121; ‘silly, dull sketch’, 122; but ‘one funny Englishman, 124
Wright, Lloyd (C.’s lawyer), 415, 417–418
writers, C. on, 389
York, Duke and Duchess of (later King and Queen), 346
York, Harry (Theatre Royal, Blackburn) 88
Young, Clara Kimball, 156
Zarmo (comedy juggler), 47
Ziegfeld Follies, in ‘ Chaplin numbers ‘, 172 ; Frank Crowninshied and, 234
Zukor, Adolph, 222–3
* A large hall which stood on the corner of Victoria Street opposite Westminster Abbey, where there were spectacular entertainments and sideshows.
* In the Karno troupe it took at least six months working together before we could perfect a tempo. Until then it was called a ‘scratch crowd’.
* Pantages circuit, which gave three shows a day.
* Hetty Green, one of the richest women in the world, was reputed to have made over $100,000,000 through her business acumen.
* This accredited remark is not true. We happened to be in the Mexican quarter, and my remark was: ‘There is more vitality here than in Beverly Hills.’
