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The most interesting, vibrant and booming city in 1920s America was Los Angeles. Tens of thousands of new folks annually flocked to the City of Angels to enjoy its balmy, year-round pleasant weather. The site of new industries, including oil and technology companies and Hollywood film studios, it sparked another important and thriving, but less known, sector: the city's expanding religious communities.As hard as it is for many to connect LA to religious matters, few cities gave more impetus to spiritual innovation than this idyllic Southern California metropolis. No two figures shaped this...

Alexander Pantages was 11 when he arrived in the U.S. in the 1880s, having contracted malaria in Panama. Unable to read or write English, by 1902 he had opened his first motion picture theater in Seattle and began building one of the largest theater circuits in the country. By 1929, he owned or operated 72 movie houses across the U.S. and Canada and had amassed a fortune. His theaters--some of which still stand--set standards for quality and refinement and he tirelessly focused on pleasing the customer. In 1929 he was convicted of sexually assaulting a 17 year-old dancer--a scandal that...