Robert H. McLaughlin

Robert H. McLaughlin (1877-1939) was a novelist, playwright, theater manager, publicist, and screenwriter in the United States. ^{[1] [2] [3]}

He edited the Clipper newspaper in 1907. ^[4]

He led Cleveland's Success Film Company. ^[5] He planned to use an Educational Film Company studio in Cleveland. ^[6] He was also involved in another planned film company in Cleveland. ^[1]

Novels

• The Great Chadwick Bubble ^[1]

Theater

• Silas Marner (1910), a dramatization of George Eliot's novel ^[7]
• The Sixth Commandment ^[8] (1910) ^[7]
• Demi-Tasse (1913) ^[9]
• Pearl of Great Price
• The Eternal Magdalene (1915) ^[10]
• Fires of Spring (1919) ^[11]
• Decameron Night ^[2] (1922) ^[12] adapted from Boccaccio's Decameron

Filmography

• The Eternal Magdalene (1919), adapted from his play of the same name

References

1. The Bookseller, Newsdealer and Stationer. Excelsior Publishing House. 1916.
2. "MCLAUGHLIN, ROBERT H." Encyclopedia of Cleveland History | Case Western Reserve University. May 11, 2018.
3. The Dictionary of Cleveland Biography. Indiana University Press. 1996. ISBN   9780253330550.
4. Rowell's American Newspaper Directory. Printers' Ink Publishing Company. 1907.
5. Educational Screen. Educational Screen, Incorporated. 1940.
6. The Moving Picture World. World Photographic Publishing Company. 1915.
7. Catalog of Copyright Entries. U.S. Government Printing Office. 1910.
8. Catalogue of Plays, 1916. Sanger & Jordan. 1916.
9. Catalogue of Copyright Entries: Pamphlets, leaflets, contributions to newspapers or periodicals, etc.; lectures, sermons, addresses for oral delivery; dramatic compositions; maps; motion pictures. U.S. Government Printing Office. 1913.
10. Harper's Weekly. Harper's Magazine Company. 1915.
11. Office, Library of Congress Copyright (April 18, 1919). "Catalog of Copyright Entries. Part 1. [B] Group 2. Pamphlets, Etc. New Series" – via Google Books.
12. Who's who in the Theatre. Pitman. 1926.