Larry McKean
Background
Larry McKean is a press agent and manager for the Peach Tree Inn in New York.
During the events of The Delicious Little Devil (1919) played by William V. Mong
Larry shows Mr. Musk and Mrs. Musk a flyer he had printed up offering jobs for a jazz band, Swiss trained waiters, vaudeville and cabaret entertainers, and a hostess and solo dancer. A group of women gather for the job including Kitty Maguire. Larry sees Kitty and stares at her out of fashion clothes. He asks the women to start dancing and they becomes offended and most of them leave, except Kitty and another woman. Kitty starts awkwardly dancing and the house band starts playing music to accompany her. Larry likes her dance moves and asks her about her reputation and she shows him the article about the Duke de Sauterne and Gloria du Moine. She tells him that she is Gloria and he asks her why she speaks with an Irish accent and has shabby clothes. She tells him that she had an Irish maid and switched clothes with her when she went into hiding. Larry then offers her a hundred dollars a week.
On opening night the Peach Tree Inn is packed with people who wanted to see who they thought was Gloria. Kitty does her original dance, The Peacock Promenade. Afterwards, Larry goes to Kitty's dressing room and tells her he wants her to meet someone and takes her to Jimmie Calhoun's table. Michael Calhoun calls Larry and tells him he wants a dinner set for Gloria. During the evening of the dinner, the Duke arrives at the inn and Larry introduces him to Michael's party. The Duke walks over to Kitty and kisses her hand, which upsets Jimmie. The next morning, Kitty runs away and takes a taxi to her apartment and the Duke and Francois chase after her followed by everyone else. Kitty runs into her apartment and the Duke barges in and locks the door behind him. A police officer runs into the apartment and tells Kitty and Jimmie that the Duke is wanted all over Europe for forgery and the Duke is arrested. Michael finally okays her and Jimmie's marriage. Meanwhile outside, Dinny tells Larry how much he loved Kitty.