Cambridge University Press 0521855055 - Sisters in Sin: Brothel Drama in America, 1900-1920 Katie N. Johnson Index More information Index A Augier, Emile, 183 ‘‘Anna Christie’’, 3, 4, 5, 15, 19, 149, 163, 164, 183, Austin, J. L., 99 187, 196, 197 happy ending in, 19, 189–192, 196–200 B male bonding in, 192, 196 Bailey, Oliver, 120 repentance and respectability in, 197 Bailey, Peter, 83, 86 Abramson, Doris, 155 Ballet Girl, The, 22 Acton, William, 7 Bank, Rosemary K., 104–105 actresses, Barnes, Djuna, 140 conflated with prostitutes, 17, 21, 79 Barnicoat, Constance A., 94 in pornography, 26, 40, 58, 129 Barry, Kathleen, 114, 117 plays and musicals about, 22–24 Barrymore, Ethel, 8 actress-as-whore myth, 17, 24, 27, 67, 76 Baudelaire, Charles, 11, 25, 168, 203 Addams, Jane, 149, 166 Bedford State Reformatory for Women, 13, 24, Adler, Felix, 103 146, 152, 156 Agate, James, 183, 185, 190, 191, Beerbohm, Max, 91 193, 197 Belasco, David, 2, 3, 4, 15, 17, 21, 29–35, 36, 37, Ah, Wilderness!, 183 41–42, 48, 66, 74, 76–78, 140, 165 Alexander, Ruth, 87 Bell, Archie, 38, 41, 42, 43 Allen, Robert G., 31, 105 Bell, Ernest, 109, 115 Althusser, Louis, 157 Bell, Hilary, 30, 35, 58 America Plan, 178, 181 Bell, Shannon, 11 American Society for Sanitary and Moral Belle of Broadway, The, 22 Prophylaxis, 171 Benchley, Robert, 189, 193, 195 Angel in the House, 174, 179 Benjamin, Walter, 11, 26, 203 Anglin, Margaret, 9 Bennett, Richard, 141, 170, 174, 181 Anti-Chinese immigration sentiments, 122 Benson, Susan Porter, 85, 87 antiprostitution reform (and reformers), 2, 4, 7, Bernhardt, Sarah, 8–9, 40, 48, 76 10, 11, 18, 19, 21–22, 30, 43, 45, 79, 81, 164, Berst, Charles A., 102 166, 168, 175, 178, 179, 181, 182 Bertha, the Sewing Machine Girl, or Death at the Any Night, 137 Wheel, 83 Appleton, Robert, 46 Berton, Pierre, 29, 32, 35 Asch, Sholom, 20, 196–199 Bess From Peaceful Valley, 119 257 © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 0521855055 - Sisters in Sin: Brothel Drama in America, 1900-1920 Katie N. Johnson Index More information 258 INDEX Big Sisters’ program, 150 Campbell, Mrs. Patrick, 8, 9 Bingham, General, 130 Captivity tales, 112, 113, 115 Blackstone, Sarah J., 116, 129, 160 Carlson, Marvin, 5, 13, 185 Blackwell’s Island Hospital, 7, 24, 146 Carmen, 10, 45, 48, 53 Blaney, Chas. E., 122 Carroll, Sydney W., 193 Blatch, Harriet Stanton, 132, 141 Carter, Mrs. Leslie, 17, 33, 35–43, 60, 146, 157, Bogard, Travis, 185, 190 194, 195, 196, 205 Bowery B’hoys, 98 and fallen women roles, 37 Boyd, Ernest, 189 and respectability, 37, 38, 40 Branded, 6 bankruptcy, 37, 41 Brandt, Allan M., 167, 179 feud with David Belasco, 41 Brat, The, 23 Caryll, Ivan, 83 Brecht, Bertolt, 168 Case of Lady Camber, The, 23 Brent, Mrs. Helen, 174 Casino Girl, The, 22 Brietzke, Zander, 184, 195 Castellun, Maida, 188, 189 Brieux, Euge`ne, 19, 163, 165, 167, 169, 172, Cather, Willa, 81, 85 173, 174, 175, 176, 178, 179, 180, 182 celebrity performance, 5 Broadway bloke, 22 censorship, 15–16 Broadway girls, 14, 22, 23–24, 25, 43, 65–66, of The Fight, 127 67, 79 of The House of Bondage, 158–160 Broadway promenades, 13, 25–26 of The Lure, 128 Bronson, Howard, 6 of Mrs Warren’s Profession, 101 Brooks, Peter, 1, 142 of Sapho, 45–46, 48, 62, 63 Brothel of The God of Vengeance, 196–200 drama, 127, 142 Century Girl, The, 22 censorship of, 45–46, 48, 62, 63, 101, 128, Chapman, John, 8 158–160 Chekhov, Anton, 191 decline of, 163–164 Chinese Exclusion Act, 122 legacy of, 200 Chorus girl, 22, 23–24, 65, 75–76 rise of, 1–20 Chorus Lady, The, 23 subversion of, 146 Chris Christophersen, 185–188 fighter, 118, 143 Churchill, Allen, 13, 14, 76 realism, 142 Claim, The, 23 staging interior of, 4, 139–143, 148, 160 Clarke, May Herschel, 193 Broun, Heywood, 199 class performance, Brown, T. Allston, 48 in The Easiest Way, 76–78 Buckley, Peter G., 25 in Mrs Warren’s Profession, 98–100 Bulkey, L. Duncan, 179 in Zaza, 41–43 Bureau of Social Hygiene, 13, 166 class voyeurism, 3, 42–43, 78–79, 129, 148 Burrell, David, 118 Climax, The, 23 Butler, Judith, 16, 99 Collins, Charles W., 2 Butsch, Richard, 104 Collins, E. Whitney, 121 Bynner, Witter, 137 Colton, John, 125 By-Products, 88 Commercialized Prostitution in New York City, 7, 116, 146 C commercialized vice, 3, 12, 31, 179, 182, 184, 197 Callis, Anne, 48 Committee of Fifteen, 4, 12, 21, 64, 116, Campbell, Bartley Theo, 114 147, 178 Camille, 5, 6, 7–10, 30, 32, 33, 44, 48, 55, 73, 76, Committee of Fourteen, 12, 67, 105, 178 92, 168, 183, 184, 191 community-based theatre, 19, 147, 156 © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 0521855055 - Sisters in Sin: Brothel Drama in America, 1900-1920 Katie N. Johnson Index More information INDEX 259 Comstock, Anthony, 14, 15, 16, 43, 96, 100, double standard on sex, 7, 18, 92, 152, 103, 106 170–171, 175 confessions/testimonials Drama League, 19, 145, 156 of white slaves, 75–76, 115 dramaturgy, Foucauldian, 180 brothel, 1–20, 127, 142 Connelly, Mark Thomas, 112–113, 117, 119, 220 feminist, 147–148, 149, 154, 156 Conspiracy, The, 121 Dreiser, Theodore, 23, 81 conspiracy of silence, 14–17, 165–169 Dresser, Marie, 85 Cooper, George, 84 Dumas fils, Alexander, 32, 35, 168, 183 Corbett, Mary Jean, 104 Duse, Eleanora, 8, 48 Corbin, John, 3, 35 Cornered, 89 E country-girl white slave plays, 18, 118–120, Earl and Girl, The, 85 123, 145 Easiest Way, The, 2, 3, 6, 15, 17, 21, 65, 141, 148, Crane, Stephen, 22, 81, 88 149, 184 Crothers, Rachel, 2, 19, 111, 127, 134, 145–156 actress-as-whore in, 67, 76 female deceit in, 69–73 D male bonding in, 68–71 Dale, Alan, 30, 37, 40, 69, 71, 72, 73, 77, 152, 155, East is West, 15, 123–124 159, 160 East Lynne, 6 Daly, Arnold, 1, 92, 96, 100–101, 106 East Side of New York, The, 83 Dam, H. J. W., 83 Eaton, Walter Prichard, 190 Damaged Goods, 15, 19, 141, 147–148, 149, 163, 164, Edna: The Girl of the Street, 105 165–182 Edwardes, George, 22, 83 and United States Army, 181 Ellington, George, 6, 25 and prostitute fatale, 168–169, 177–182 Elliott, A. W., 116 and venereal disease, 165–175, 177, 179–182 Ellis, Edward, 137 as sermon, 175–177 Ellison, Grace, 146 given as command performance, 165 Eltis, Sos, 5 Dame aux Came´lias, La, see Camille Erdman, Harley, 199 Dancing Girl, The, 22 Escaped From the Harem, 113, 124–125 Dangers of Innocence; or the Lure of the City, 119 eugenics, 10, 123, 168, 173, 175 Darnton, Charles, 127, 144 Everleigh Club, 140 Daudet, Alphonse, 47, 49–50, 53 Davis, Dr. Katherine, 156 F Davis, Owen, 2, 51, 66 Fair, Fanny, 38, 94 Davis, Tracy, 24, 26, 40, 58 fallen women, 1, 4–10, 21, 90 department store, 4, 83–90 and actresses’ repertoires of, 37 De Young, Mary, 117 and ‘‘Anna Christie’’, 184, 186, 190–191 Dealers in White Women, 122 and the Angel in the House, 179 Dedrick, Florence Mabel, 119 and Mrs Warren’s Profession, 94 Defoe, Louis V., 76 and Sapho, 45–46, 51, 62, 64 Degen, John, 22 and The Easiest Way, 73 Deluge, The, 184, 195 and Zaza, 30, 36, 43 Demimonde, 25, 42, 102 iconography of, 76 Dial, 189 FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation), 1, Diamond, Elin, 78 109, 127 Diana of Dobson’s, 88, 149 female, Doll’s House, A, 8, 71, 188 anger, 188 Donkin, Ellen, 91–93, 107 audience members, 31, 102–108, 174 © Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 0521855055 - Sisters in Sin: Brothel Drama in America, 1900-1920 Katie N. Johnson Index More information 260 INDEX female, (cont.) Gelb, Arthur and Barbara, 183, 184, 194 and respectability, 104 gender, madness/hysteria, 163, 166, 168, 175, 177, 200 performance, 16, 30 mistaken for prostitutes, 104–106 regulation of roles, 5, 113, 174, 175 bonding, 150, 151, 152 Getthore, Billy, 123 delinquents (also known as the ‘‘girl Gilfoyle, Timothy J., 12, 13, 50, 181, 182, 184 problem’’), 1, 7, 19, 150 Gilman, Sander, 179, 180 desire, 87, 153–154 Girl Behind the Counter, The, 18, 86, 87 producers, see Nethersole, Olga and Spooner, Girl From Kay’s, The, 86 Cecil Girl From Rector’s, The, 73 feminist/feminism, 21, 77, 79, 94, 100, 103, 111, Girl in the Spotlight, The, 22 128, 136, 160 Girl Who Disappeared, The, 114 agenda, 94 Girl Without a Chance, The, 121, 221 and smoking, 53–55, 94 Goat Alley, 15 consciousness-raising theatre, 19, 147, 156 God of Vengeance, The, 15, 19, 20, 163–164, 183, discourse in ‘‘Anna Christie’’, 188 196–199 dramaturgy, 147–148, 149, 154, 156 brothel in, 197, 199 insight into marriage as a business the lesbian prostitute in, 164, 183, 196–200 transaction, 172 respectability in, 197, 199 Mary Shaw and, 107, 108 Gold Diggers, The, 23 Olga Nethersole and, 17, 51 Goldman, Emma, 75, 93, 113, 117 themes in The Fight, 136 Gottlieb, Lois, 155 femme fatale, 49, 168, 181 Great God Brown, 183 Ferris, Lesley, 191 ‘‘guilty’’ third tier, 104 Fielder, Mari Kathleen, 158 Fight, The, 15, 18, 19, 109, 127, 128, 131, 133–138, H 139–140, 141, 142, 143, 145, 148, 158, Hackett, Francis, 79, 184, 190 160, 169 Hall, Ann, 188, 189, 191 evolution of, 134 Hamilton, Cecily, 88, 149 female fighter in, 143 Hamilton, Clayton, 136, 137 shut down, 127 Hamilton, James Sheldon, 15 suffragette support of, 131, 132–133, 134, 135, 136 Hammond, Percy, 188 Fighting The Traffic in Young Girls, 109 Hanley, Parke F., 130 Finch, Stanley, 128 Hapgood, Norman, 36, 38, 40, 152 Fiske, Harrison Grey, 186 Hapke, Laura, 81 Fiske, Mrs., 8, 146, 193 Harned, Virginia, 9 Fitch, Clyde, 17, 21, 45, 46–64 Harris, Henry B., 131, 136, 139–140, flaˆneur, flaˆnerie, 26–27 157, 158 Forbes, James, 23 Hays censorship office, 126 Foucault, Michel, 16, 48, 49, 115, 167, 169, Hayward, C., 47 175, 180 Her Road to Ruin, 119 Fournier, Alfred, 169 Herman, W.