| | PAGE |
| The Keystone the Builders Rejected | [3] |
| An Imaginary Conversation | [27] |
| “I Am Here To-Day”: Charlie Chaplin | [41] |
| Say It with Music | [57] |
| Tearing a Passion to Ragtime | [69] |
| Toujours Jazz | [83] |
| Mr Dooley, Meet Mr Lardner | [111] |
| A Tribute to Florenz Ziegfeld | [129] |
| The Darktown Strutters on Broadway | [149] |
| Plan for a Lyric Theatre in America | [161] |
| The One-Man Show | [177] |
| The Dæmonic in the American Theatre | [191] |
| These, Too | [203] |
| The “Vulgar” Comic Strip | [213] |
| The Krazy Kat That Walks by Himself | [231] |
| The Damned Effrontery of the Two-a-Day | [249] |
| They Call It Dancing | [267] |
| St Simeon Stylites | [277] |
| Burlesque, Circus, Clowns, and Acrobats | [291] |
| The True and Inimitable Kings of Laughter | [297] |
| The Great God Bogus | [309] |
| An Open Letter to the Movie Magnates | [323] |
| Before a Picture by Picasso | [345] |
| APPENDICES |
| Appendix to “I Am Here To-Day” | [361] |
| “Bananas” and Other Songs | [367] |
| Appendix to “These, Too...” | [374] |
| The Krazy Kat Ballet | [377] |
| Further Note on the Fratellini | [380] |
| The Cinema Novel | [383] |
| Acknowledgments | [391] |