Word: brothel
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...tell the story of his life, on which he based his symphony. First he flees Rome with a mistress because his father demands his return to Wall Street. Failing to write his music in Paris, he slides down the scale and is 'next discovered in a Port Said brothel. Ably assisted by quantities of dope, he murders a cockney sailor man. His last lap is in the Marquesas where he comes down with leprosy. In the brief remaining years of sanitay he is supposed to have contrived the symphony...
...also denounced "the six greatest evils" of the day. These, according to his enumeration, are: "Divorce, race suicide, the public dance halls ('some dances,' said he, are 'soul-killing in the extreme'), the narcotic-drug habit, the hip-pocket flask, and the automobile-brothel...
...Dust Heap. A Canadian-Northwest melodrama in which the very scenery gets up and acts. In a brothel on the Yukon, the roof pulsates while two men struggle on it, the chimney disgorges a handcuffed hero, a thunderbolt comes right into the room and wrecks everything but the heroine's marcel waves, glass crashes, beams fall, audiences quake. On the opening night, the people sitting in the first row dodged...
...child is born in a gaudy Marseilles brothel. Joint maintenance of her honor and her offspring under such circumstances is magically accomplished in the best manner of melodrama. Matters seem to be mending until a vicious paternal grandfather appears and essays to take the child from her by law, alleging that she is not fit to rear her own. By a fortunate coincidence she is enabled to whisk the lad away to a friendly haven in England but only with the understanding that she never see him again...
...high lights: Annie is a woman of the streets who practices, as a sideline, needlework (hypodermic). She kills the brothel keeper in whose abode she made her living. The audience is given every reason to hope that she will not be convicted. Mary Ryan, as the lady of crimson illumination, shines but dimly...