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Neferus, which says "marriage." After hopping a refrigerator car, the couple is brought before a kindly judge, who dismisses the charges brought against them so that they can marry. The papers print that Jane is to marry a hobo. Dean wants to avoid making his bad luck worse, but he marries Jane in New York. He then must face her father, who accuses him of being a fortune hunter. Dr. Ellison, head of the expedition, gives Dean a fake missing fragment of the ninth and last tablet for a wedding present, which Jane has inscribed with the story of Neferus saving Anebi from her father, who has abducted her. Dean boards what he believes is the Van Burens' yacht and fights for his bride, destroying the yacht, to the delight of Van Buren, who now accepts him. Jane then realizes Dean fought for her knowing the tablet was fake. The couple is united and, years later, as an old man, Dean finally finds the real ninth tablet, which assures him he is not going to die tomorrow.
305:, usually disappointing. While some theaters attracted Lloyd's usual followers, others reported lower attendance and even walkouts. "Didn't seem to set so good with a little group of regulars who'd come regardless of hell or high water and punk shows. Pretty terrible for our friend Lloyd." (A. E. Eliasen, Rialto Theatre, Paynesville, Minnesota). "Harold has been off the screen so long that he has been forgotten." (C. R. Gregg. Liberty Theatre, Caney, Kansas). "I can't understand why so many of the exhibitors pan this one. We played same two days to good business." (P. G. Held, New Strand Theatre, Griswold, Iowa). "We tried to give this one away on bargain night, but we couldn't even do that. Harold, why don't you give up?" (Mayme P. Musselman, Princess Theatre, Lincoln, Kansas). Such negative feedback discouraged Lloyd from making any more movies, and he retired from the screen except for one final attempt in 1947 (
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actress and heiress Jane Van Buren and exchanges clothes with her drunk audition partner, Snoop Donlan. Dean is arrested for stinking of liquor. His arrest makes the papers and he is asked to resign from the museum staff. Dean has ten days to join an expedition leaving for Egypt from New York and becomes a stowaway in the trailer of a pair of newlyweds bound for
298:. This time Lloyd participated only as an actor and partial investor; the film was actually made by Paramount's creative staff and technicians. By 1938 Lloyd's pace of production had slowed considerably; he had usually been seen in one or two films annually, but his latest films were released two years apart.
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Springville, Pennsylvania, finally apprehends Dean, but Jane picks him up in the museum car, which is discovered by the police. A chase ensues. While hiding in
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