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...Paramount). A Manhattan gambler, hard-pressed by the police, selects a hideaway by stabbing a time table with a pencil. In the sleepy village of Glendale he comes upon a beautiful librarian who is yearning for metropolitan excitements. He decides, on the flip of a coin, to marry her, takes her back to town with him. By the time the picture is over, hardboiled Babe Stewart is no longer a gambler. Reformed by his gay little librarian, he has voluntarily served three months in jail, is in a fair way to become-for him a step up in the world...
Aside from being a harmless, rapid, amusing little program picture, No Man of Her Own will recommend itself to a large portion of the cinema public because Babe Stewart, the gambler, is Clark Gable, borrowed from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer to play opposite Carole Lombard. Typical shot: Gable-whose animal appeal is abated somewhat by a constant sucking at his teeth-persuading Miss Lombard to climb a ladder in her library so that he can admire her from below...
...section is enough to shame any Harvard man who has an ounce of sporting blood. We cheer only when we are personally excited by a good play, merely as an emotional outlet, and not with any idea of maintaining the morale of the team. We have become like a gambler in stocks whose support of a company is based only on its chances of increment, to be abandoned at any weakening...
Some events of the five-year period Author Sullivan has raked together: sinking of the Titanic, the Jack Johnson-Jim Jeffries fight, forced dissolution of the Standard Oil trust, electrocution of Police Lieutenant Charles Becker for instigating the murder of Gambler Herman Rosenthal. Edgar Lee Masters' Spoon River Anthology, Halley's Comet, Ford jokes. Suffragettes Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst, Evangelist Billy Sunday, the two-step, grizzly bear, bunny hug. Actress Lillian Russell, erection of Manhattan's Woolworth Building. Louis Bleriot's flight across the English Channel, nude "September Morn." dawn of psychoanalysis...
...hair shot with grey. He was born in Fort Smith, Ark. in 1876, the year of the Custer Massacre. Before he was old enough to enter a saloon he struck out for Nevada. In Winnemucca he learned faro, poker, bird-cage and 21. He was soon called "The Boy Gambler" and banked his own faro. He was in Goldfield during the 1906 boom, made a million dollars in mining stocks. His contemporaries in those days included the late Tex Rickard, who was running a gambling hall, and Charles Victor Bob, engineer-promoter. His gambling halls grew so large that...