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Show uo : BUCK PARI AT THE LYCEUM "The Extra Man and the Milk-fed Milk-fed Lion," to Be Shown Monday. The fate of the humble "extra" who has the audacity to fall in love with Myrtle Manners, the leading woman of the "Titan Motion Picture company," com-pany," Is heartlessly shown up In The Extra Man and the Milk-fed Lion." Tommy is a friend of Buck's.' Buck gets him the job. Later he is sorrv. This amusing story, as adapted bv Charles E. Van Loan for picturiza-tion picturiza-tion under the Mustang brand, is related re-lated on the screen as follows: Buck Parvin (Art Acord) introduces his friend, Tommy Dennis (S. William Marshall) to Director Montague (Lawrence (Law-rence Peyton), who gives Tommy a chance in the mob. Tommy's troubles, trou-bles, begin. He loses his heart to charming Myrtle Manners, the star (Dixie Strntton) and dreams of her, sleenirif or waklnrr until v. : r uso in the studio. Buck, seeing how the land lies, tips Tommy to the fact that there will be no extra man in Myrtle's pictures while Jack La Rue is playing opposite the star. Tommy refuses to swallow the hint. The "extra," hard hit, leaves flowers flow-ers at Miss Manners' dressing-room door. Buck happens along just afterwards aft-erwards and grabs the credit for the bouquet. One day, however, her admirer ad-mirer gets Myrtle a sandwich, and Is rewarded by a gracious smile. Montv receives orders to "cut out the jungle stuff, but to get some kind of a scenario scen-ario using all the animals." Circus ntuff seems the only solution. The director bargains with a visiting show to let him take the scenes. One of these is to be a thriller in which La Rue rescues Myrtle from the Hon'3 cage. But although tho king of beasts Is only a milk-fed lion, tho leading man refuses to take any chances with his priceless hide. After the first "take" Monty Is "stumped." Miss Manners, Is willing to take the risk. But she Is just a little bit nervous. Lovesick Tommy tries to reassure her. Then the Hon growls. Myrtle turns white as a ghost Tommy Tom-my flings himself through the crowd, right across tho camera line, and rushes to her rescue. The scene is "crabbed," and Myrtle tells her misguided mis-guided hero what she thinks of him. Tommy drains the cup of bitterness for Monty not only curses him but also hands him his walking papers. on 1 |