Robert H. McLaughlin

Robert H. McLaughlin (1877-1939)[1] was a novelist, playwright, theater manager, publicist, and screenwriter in the United States.[2][3][4] He also edited the Clipper newspaper in 1907.[5]

He led Cleveland's Success Film Company.[6] He planned to use an Educational Film Company studio in Cleveland.[7] He was also involved in another planned film company in Cleveland.[2]

Novels

  • The Great Chadwick Bubble[2]

Theater

  • Silas Marner (1910), a dramatization of George Eliot's novel[8]
  • The Sixth Commandment[9] (1910)[8]
  • Demi-Tasse (1913)[10]
  • Pearl of Great Price
  • The Eternal Magdalene (1915)[11]
  • Fires of Spring (1919)[12]
  • Decameron Night[3] (1922)[13] adapted from Boccaccio's Decameron

Filmography

References

  1. ↑ "Robert H. McLaughlin Dies; Long in Theater". Lexington Herald-Leader. Lexington, Kentucky. January 17, 1939. p. 9. Retrieved August 19, 2026 – via Newspapers.com. Closed access icon
  2. 1 2 3 The Bookseller, Newsdealer and Stationer. Excelsior Publishing House. 1916.
  3. 1 2 "MCLAUGHLIN, ROBERT H." Encyclopedia of Cleveland History | Case Western Reserve University. May 11, 2018.
  4. ↑ The Dictionary of Cleveland Biography. Indiana University Press. 1996. ISBN 9780253330550.
  5. ↑ Rowell's American Newspaper Directory. Printers' Ink Publishing Company. 1907.
  6. ↑ Educational Screen. Educational Screen, Incorporated. 1940.
  7. ↑ The Moving Picture World. World Photographic Publishing Company. 1915.
  8. 1 2 Catalog of Copyright Entries. U.S. Government Printing Office. 1910.
  9. ↑ Catalogue of Plays, 1916. Sanger & Jordan. 1916.
  10. ↑ 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.
  11. ↑ Harper's Weekly. Harper's Magazine Company. 1915.
  12. ↑ Office, Library of Congress Copyright (April 18, 1919). "Catalog of Copyright Entries. Part 1. [B] Group 2. Pamphlets, Etc. New Series" – via Google Books.
  13. ↑ Who's who in the Theatre. Pitman. 1926.