Judge, 1922-12-23 · page 14 of 36
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ERTON GILL is the small town boy whose soul is in the moving pictures. At the end of each perfect day of hard labor he kneels at his bedside to pray: “Please make me a good movie actor, for Jesus sake. Amen.” As “Clifford Armatage” (his nom de screen), he is an abject failure, but out of the ashes of de- feat he rises Phoenix- like to success with the aid of Flips Montague, his “best pal, but severest critic.” Glenn Hunter has made a personal triumph as the poor, deluded “act- ingest kid in the world.” Glenn Hunter in “Merton of the Movies’ Sketches by Guy Hoff ’