Word: frisco
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Dates: during 1924-1924
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THEY KNEW WHAT THEY WANTED ?The vineyards of California, some of the sunshine and some of the bitterness, told by an old Italian peasant, the Frisco waitress he married by mail and a shiftless, handsome farm hand...
...vineyard farm in California to find that her prospective husband, an old Italian, has tricked her by sending in place of his own, the photograph of his youthful, wayward, farm hand. The deception discovered, she concludes that even old Tony is preferable to the spaghettied dreariness of her 'Frisco job. Tony breaks both his legs just before the wedding and three months pass. The girl is with child by the farm hand Joe. In a severe and somewhat artificial climax Tony, whom she has mean while come to love, retains her as his wife...