In Love with Life (1934)

Professor John Sylvestus Applegate has been dismissed from his college teaching position for objecting too loudly to the predominant part that football and other sports play in the curriculum and soon finds himself dead broke when publishers show no interest in the dry material he brings to them He meets a young boy Laury and his mother Sharon in the park and is quite taken with them He gets a jobprospect letter as a private tutor and applies at once His employer is Mr Morley a surly sour meantempered old man who informs John he is to act as a tutor for his grandson who turns out to be Laury Sharon Morleys daughter had eloped against her fathers wishes and was abandoned by her husband after Laurys birth