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Straight Thru the Door. An actor-playwright (Actor-Playwright William Hodge) was building a house in the suburbs. His foreman was murdered. The actor-playwright had an admirer-feminine, of course-who was doing the interior decorating in the new house. The foreman had made nasty allusions to the actor-playwright's conduct with the architect, and the foreman's men had seen the interior decorator sinking a hot kiss in the actor-playwright's lips. It all looked bad for the actor-playwright, but there was a happy ending: the real murderer was led away...
...Command Performance celebrates one of those witty romances which occur constantly even at this late era in Moldavia, a non-existent country. An actor rescues a lady, assailed by ruffians in the street. One of the ruffians is the decadent Prince of Moldavia; the actor is arrested and haled before the queen...
...minister of Moldavia is negotiating a treaty with the fat King of Wallachia; to contract the alliance is essential, but to do so it is also essential that the Prince of Moldavia marry the proud Princess of Wallachia. The true prince is unwilling to bother with preliminaries; hence the actor is offered his choice between a life-career in the salt mines and a chance to woo by proxy the foreign princess and bring her back for the real prince to wed. He chooses the latter and naturally falls in love with the lady he is supposed to deceive...
...gangster's bullet will end it all. A second love comes into the meddling clubman's life, but the girl (Martha Sleeper), a luncheon cashier, lists not to the mating song of the clubman when she learns he has been balked by another. Warner Baxter, able actor, is unable to escape the boundaries of a bad script...
...Notably Eslanda Goode Robeson, wife of Paul Robeson, lawyer, actor, spirituals-singer. She is a Spanish Negress who, after being graduated from Columbia, was an assistant pathological chemist at Presbyterian. She surrendered her profession to marry Paul Robeson...