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Living Dangerously (by Reginald Simpson & Frank Gregory; Shuberts, producers). In this British importation, a London physician named Norton (Conway Tearle) breaks off his partnership with unscrupulous Dr. Pryor (Percy Waram) because the latter has been selling narcotics. Thereupon Dr. Pryor runs to the Medical Council with the tale that Dr. Norton has been unprofessionally intimate with his wife (Phoebe Foster). Since Dr. Norton loses his right to practice, Mrs. Pryor is disgraced and her husband subsequently sent to jail, the chief characters of this piece appear to be living not dangerously but miserably...
...billed merely as star and sole author, it is generally understood that she did the casting, passed on the costumes and is responsible for everything except the sound patents. She is Ruby Carter, an entertainer of the mauve decade, the idol of St. Louis and of Tiger Kid (Roger Pryor). Tiger Kid is a prizefighter until his manager frames a telephone call which makes the Tiger think Ruby is unfaithful. Abandoned by the Kid, she goes to work at the "Sensation House" in New Orleans where Ace Lamont (John Miljan) seizes her in his arms. Miljan: "Your red lips, your...
...Like It That Way," Gloria Stuart, who just lay around on couches in Eddie Cantor's "Roman Scandals," suddenly comes to life and actually talks and sings. In fact she is a very agreeable person in another and unexpectedly good light musical, that also boasts of Roger Pryor, formerly of the legitimate stage. In addition, this picture also manages to provide numerous excuses for chorus girls in underwear--which is becoming too old a trick...
...Territory to his white children. A few months later Elmer Thomas hung his shingle over the doorway of a frame house in the frontier town of Lawton. Across the street hung the shingle of a young, blind lawyer who had not yet developed his resonant chime-like voice-Thomas Pryor Gore. Frequent court opponents, they were friends, and both had their shoes shined by a newsboy named Riley. In that frontier world all things were possible, for today Thomas and Gore* represent the sovereign State of Oklahoma in the U. S. Senate, and Fletcher Settle Riley is Chief Justice...
...night in 1919. Lieut. Eugene Vidal, stationed at Camp Humphreys, Va., observed a beauteous, dark-haired girl in a debutante party nearby. Overcoming his extreme shyness he contrived to meet her that night and again next day. She was Nina Gore, daughter of Oklahoma's blind Senator Thomas Pryor Gore. They were married...