The Emergency Case

While his brother the doctor is out of town, Hugh Cameron uses his car and status to talk his way out of traffic tickets, pick up girls, and perform operations.

It's the sort of skit that might play on the vaudeville circuit or be performed in front of the stage curtains while the sets were changed behind it. Cameron is facile, if stagey, which is hardly surprising. He had been playing on the New York stage since 1903. Might he make a movie performer? Warner Brothers used their Vitaphone shorts, shot out in Brooklyn, as screen tests as much as fillers for movie programs.

Cameron would make about 25 appearances in movies, almost all of them shorts or supporting roles in features shot in the East for minor producers. He would continue to perform on the stage through 1940, and die the following year, aged 63.