My Autobiography (75 page)

film),
166

His Night Out
(C’s Essanay film),
169

His Prehistoric Past
(C’s Keystone film),
154
,
160

Hitler, Adolf,

W. R. Hearst’s interview with,
316
; C’s view of,
316
; as idea for

The Great Dictator
,
386

hog-raising, C. considers,
125

Hollywood,

as Mecca for writers,
200
; ‘every-one in the hotel looked lost’,

201
; C.returns to,
372
,
374

‘Honest Joe’:
see
Schenck, Joe

Honeysuckle and the
Bee
,
The
(song), C. and,
37

Hong Kong, C. in,
379

Honolulu, C. in,
203
,
379

Hoover, Edgar,
419

Hoover, Herbert,
373
,
395
–8

Hopkins, Harry,
393
hop-picking, C’s brother goes,

51

Horns, the (public house, Kenning-ton),
9
,
97
; C revisits,
265

Horowitz, Vladimir,
390

horses, C’s attitude to,
199
,
271

House of All Nations (Chicago brothel),

126

Hughes, Howard,
186
humour, C. on,
148
; distinction

from comedy,
210

Huxley, Aldous,
428
hypnotism, C. and,
169
–70

Hyton, Charlie,
296
–7

Ibanez, Blasco,
200
Idle Class, The
(C’s film),
258
–9

Immigrant, The
(C’s film),
208

Ince, Thomas,
156
,
294
; death of,

313
–14

Inge, the Very Rev. W. R. (Dean Inge), G. B. Shaw’s anecdote on,

331

Ingersoll, R.: ‘his
Essays and Lectures

an exciting discovery’,
134

intellect and emotion in the theatre,

C. on,
250
ff.

Irving, Sir Henry,

C. at funeral of,
91
; and Nat Goodwin,
174
; ‘noble, sensitive’,
258
.

Irving, Washington, C. and works of,
135

Ivan the Terrible
:’the acme of all historical pictures’,
320

Jack Jones
(music-hall song), C. and,
18

Jackson family (of the Eight Lancashire Lads),
43
ff.,
349

Jail Birds
(Karno sketch),
92

Japan, C. in,
362
–71,
380

Jeffers, Robinson,
384

Jim, the Romance of a Cockney

H. A. Saintsbury’s melodrama),

C.’s part in,
77
–81

jobs, C’s earliest,
60
–64,
71
–3

Johnson, Dr Hewlett, C’s view of,
339

joke-book, C. uses a,
95

Jolson, Al, C. on
256

Joyce, Peggy Hopkins,
293
–4

Karno, Fred,
73
,
92
,
116
; as a comedian,
98
;

engages C. for Harry

Weldon sketch,
98
–101,
114
; and

Mumming Birds
,
103
,
114
,
116
;

popularity of his shows in

America,
121
; C. on his house

boat,
133

Karno, Fred, Junr,
140

Kay Kay (C.’s children’s nurse),
466

Kelly, Arthur (Hetty’s brother),
137
,
263

Kelly, Hetty, C. and,
103
–7,
115
–16,
259
,
263

Kendal, Mr and Mrs, C. turns down a part with,
91

Kessel, Charles,
138
–9

Kessel and Bauman (Amer, film producers),
138
,
159

Keynes, John Maynard,
331

Keystone Film Company, C. joins,
138
ff.; ‘a wrench leaving’,
161
;
see also
Sennett,

Mack. For list of films
see

p.
478

Khrushchev, Nikita, C’s meeting with,
467
–9

Kid, The
,
230
–35; C.’s disagreement

with First National over,
237
;

trial showings of,
238
,
242
–3;‘

proclaimed a classic’,
249
–50

Kinsey-Taylor, Dr, C. as pageboy to,
61

Kitchen, Fred (comedian),
92

Kitchener, Field Marshal Lord, C. and,
91

Klieg lights,
157

Knoblock, Edward,
260
,
261
,
268
,
269
,
272

knowledge, C.’s motives for ‘passionately wanting’,
134

Kono (C’s Japanese secretary),
366
ff.
passim

Korda, Sir Alexander,
386

Leemmle, Carl,
160
,
316

Lambeth Workhouse,
25
–7

Larkin, Jim,
280
–81

Laski, Harold,
341

Laughing Gas
, C. directs for Keystone,
157

Lawson, John,
429

Legion of Decency, and
Monsieur
Verdoux,
429
,
438
;
see also
Breen office.

Legion of Honour, C. as member of, 275,
353

Lehrman, Henry (Keystone film director),
144
; ‘thought I knew too much’,
145
; ‘mutilated my funny business’,
145
,
148

Leno, Dan,
47
,
132

‘Lestock, the Dashing Eva’,
56
–7

Lewis, Sinclair,
408

Liberty Bond Drives (U.S.A.), C.

and the,
213
–17

life, C’s views on,
199
–200,
206
,
210
,287,2
90

Lillie, Beatrice,
303

Limelight
,
257
,
447
,
449
,
452
–3,

458
–9,
463

Lipton, Sir Thomas,
310
–11

literature, C.’s interest in,
48
,
244
;

see also
entries for individual

authors

Lloyd, Harold,
171

Lloyd, Marie,
47

Locke, William J.,
200

Lockhart’s tea rooms (London), C.’s memories of,
62

London, C.’s early life in,
13
ff.;

revisits the old homes in,
259
if.

London Topical Times
, C.’s good notice in,
81

loneliness, C. and,
82
,
137
,
177
,
287
,

372
,
375
,
426
; ‘it is repellent’,

180
; ‘much has been written

about my loneliness’,
266

Louis Ferdinand, grandson of the Kaiser,
373

Louise (C.’s father’s mistress),
33
–40,
87

love affairs, C.’s,
41
,
103
ff.,
134
,
156
,
352
,
354
–6,
361

Lucas, E. V.,
268

Luce, Clare Boothe,
448
–9

Ludwig, Emil,
351

Lusitania
, s.s., sinking of the,
212

Lutyens, Sir Edwin,
268
,
271
–2

Mabel’s Strange Predicament
(C.’s

early Keystone film),
148
–9

McCarthy family (Kenningtonneighbours),
11
,
66
–8

McCormick, Anne O’Hare,
396

MacDonald, Malcolm,
337

MacDonald, Ramsay,
332
,
338

Mack, Charlie,
198

McKay, Claude (Jamaican poet),
280

Madison’s Budget
(Amer, joke-book),
95

Maeterlinck, Madame,
260

Male and Female
(De Mille film),
173

Malone, Dudley Field,
244
,
246
,
403

Manchester: ‘cataleptic’ on Sunday,
358
–9

Mann, Thomas,
316
,
384
,
428
,
440

Manoir de Ban (C.’s home in Switzerland),
465

Manon, Charlie, C.’s brother joins troupe,
92

Mao Tse-tung,
472

Marceline (French clown),
45
–6;

suicide,
46

Marriage Circle, The
(Lubitsch film),
295

marriages, C.’s,
228
,
300
,
380

Mary, Queen, inspiration for her

doll’s house,
272

Masefield, John,
303

Maugham, W. Somerset,
200
; C. on

Rain
,
127
,
200
; C. corrects his

quotation of C.’s comments,

266
–7; his output,
384

Maxwell, Elsa,
276

Mayer, Louis B., and Mildred

Harris’s contract,
229

Mead, Senator James M.,
405

Meighan, Thomas,
202
; and Edna

Purviance,
204
–5

Melba, Dame Nellie,
191

Menjou, Adolphe,
295

mergers of film-producing companies,

220
–221

Merry Major, The
(sketch), C. plays

juvenile lead in,
97

‘Method’ school of acting, C. on

the,
254
–5

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Co.,
229
;

and Hearst Productions,
314

Meyer, Walter (Einstein’s assistant),
316

‘million-dollar carpet’, the (Alexandria Hotel,

Los Angeles),
183
–4

millionaires, C. on,
306

Miracle, The
(Reinhardt’s spectacle),

180

Miss Priscilla’s Cat
(C.’s comedy

recitation, as a boy),
41

Mr Perkins, M.P
. (Karno sketch),

122

Mizner, Wilson,
217

Modern Times
,
209
; original idea

for,
3
77
–8; ‘a great success’,
382

Molnár, Erik, and emotion in the

theatre,
252

money, C. and,

‘like an avalanche… frightening’,

174
; ‘it all seemed slightly mad’,

188
; ‘it was legendary’,
189
;

‘the delights of,
261

Monsieur Verdoux
,
412
–13,
426
;censorship and,
429
ff.; sequences

from script of,
430
–36; opening

of,
443
–4

Montagu, Ivor,
319
,
467

Monterey, Carlotta,
155

Moore, Alexander,
311

Moore, George,
448
–9

Morgan, Anne (daughter of J. P. Morgan),
272
–3,
275
–6

Morris, Gouverneur,
200
; on The
Kid
,
233
–4

Mirros, William (Amer, theatre-owner),
121
; C. at his
42
nd Street

theatre,
129

Morrison, Herbert,
459

Mosley, Sir Oswald,
350
–51

Mountbatten, Lord,
470

Mumming Birds
(Karno sketch),
92
; C. in,
103
,
116

Munnings, Sir Alfred,
331
–2

Murray, Philip,
404
music,

‘I had great ambitions’,
125
; as creator of C.’s moods and themes,
209
> C. composes for his films,
325
musicians, C. on,
389
–90

Mutual Film Corporation, C. joins,
177
–9; his films for,
187
,
479

Nast, Condé,
243

National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, C.’s plight reported to,
39

Nazism, C.’s hatred for,
398
–9,
406
–7,
411

Negri, Pola, C. and
274
,
295
–8

Nehru, Pandit Jawaharlal,
470
–71

New Janitor, The
(C.’s Keystone film),
154

New York, C. in,
119
–24; ‘this is where I belong!’
121
;
177
,
178
,
191
,
306
,
327
; ‘stepping on air in’,
243

Nichols, ‘Pop’ (Keystone film director): ‘had but one gag’,
149

Night at the Club, A
(Karno sketch), C. plays the ‘drunk’ in,
139
; Ellsworth says ‘very funny’,
147

Night In an English Musk Hall, A
(Karno sketch): ‘tremendous success’ in U.S.A.,
129

Nijinsky, Vaslav,
191
–3

Niles (California), C. at Essanay studios at,
161
,
167
–70

Noailles, Countess,
352

Normand, Mabel,
138
,
141
,
143
,
145
,
146
; C. rebels against direction by,
149
–51; ‘we remained only good friends’,
155

Norn’s. Kathleen,
200

Odets, Clifford,
428

Old Testament, C. on ‘horrific cruelty’ of the,
134

Olivier, Laurence, Shakespeare in ‘white tie and tails’,
254