《The Talker (1925)》Storyline
" Elsewhere in LA, Riggs was doing an undercover drug deal (for one-hundred thousand dollars) with Christmas tree lot owners - he displayed his gun and badge to arrest them, and during the drug bust shot three of the suspects as LAPD backup arrived to assist.Newly-graduated from college, the meek-looking, foppish effete is attired with fancy college clothes (a striped blazer and wide-legged pants, a checked bowtie), a French beret, a pencil-thin mustache, and carrying a ukulele under one arm.It opened with a washed out B/W/color sequence of contemptuous, undefeated heavyweight champion boxer Mason "The Line" Dixon (Antonio Tarver) quickly knocking out another opponent, and being blamed for the "decline" of the entire sport, with fans booing and pelting him with ice, presumably because he had easily risen through the ranks by only fighting patsies and bums." She resolutely resists teaching her inept pupil any further:I can""t teach you anything.In song, Lucky (from the floor) pleads with her for more lessons: "Please teacher, teach me something.