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Celebrity Synopsis

Circus, the manager of boxer Kid Reagan, has an idea: to make him more popular with an educated milieu, he wants him to write poetry. But that's not his thing. No matter. Circus then enlists the services of an ex-journalist to write the poems that his protégé will simply sign. And to make the boxer even more popular, he recruits two vaudeville actresses, a mother and a daughter, to play the roles of his pseudo kind mother and his alleged tender lover.

Man's Plaything Synopsis

While working as a flower girl in Devlin Maddox's nightclub, Nellie Vaughan meets wealthy young Pelton Van Teel and falls in love. Maddox, desirous of using Nellie to blackmail Van Teel, spreads a rumor that she is his mistress. This makes Nellie uncomfortable, and she demands that Van Teel marry her immediately, to which he agrees. Meanwhile, Van Teel has been losing money gambling to Maddox, who threatens to break up the marriage by producing a worthless check that the young husband has written. Venturing to Maddox's apartment for a showdown, Nellie pulls a gun and demands the check, accidentally shooting Maddox when he throws a lamp at her. Maddox plans to charge Nellie with assault, but when the police arrive, his butler, actually a detective employed by the elder Van Teel, exposes Maddox, who is then arrested, clearing the path for the couple's happiness.