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“AFTER MIDNIGHT” Lawrence Gray, who plays opposite Norma Shearer in “After Midnight,” now being shown at the Grand Theatre, was formerly reporting this type of life. He began as a cub for the San Francisco “Call,” and covered the. police and waterfront beats. During the war, he was an ensign in the United States Navy. Afterwards he became a bank clerk. He was induced by a film director, who saw him in a teller’s cage, to play a similar role in a picture. In that role
Gray did so well that he was placed under contract. [Recently Gray played the leading man in “The Callahans and the Murphys,” and so impressed the studio executives, he was immediately earmarked l'or the principal male role in "After Midnight.” Lawrence Gray’s manly and expressive acting is a decided gain to motion pictures, and the former reporter-en-sing-clerk has said “Adieu” to the old
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 218, 3 December 1927, Page 14
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