Word: gigolos
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...fortune and notoriety in the big city, and then back again to the sylvan glen and the knowledge that she loves the half-breed after all. In the course of her adventures she runs the gamut of engagement, marriage, separation, motherhood, prostitution for her baby's sake, divorce, and gigolo-hiring, before she at last finds true love in the arms of good old Moonglow, the Indian. Not content with this, the scenario writers estranged her father, burned up her baby, and put her mother on a most touching death-bed, all to give little Nasa the chance...
...picture which would probably be an unpleasant little program picture but for the presence in it of Herbert Marshall and Sari Maritza. Marshall is Count von Degenthal who, in the failing of his family's fortunes, has been forced to capitalize his good manners in the ignoble profession of gigolo. Maritza is the pretty daughter of a wealthy businessman who admires the count but despises his calling. When a fat U. S. widow (Mary Boland) buys the von Degenthal castle at an auction and plans to modernize it into an apartment hotel with the count for manager and his valet...
...pictures are dissimilar. Constance, far from being the finalist in a beauty contest, is a girl of high degree who has found that the men she admires are unsusceptible to her charms. To make herself more desirable, she sets out to acquire a past, aided by a flip gigolo (Ben Lyon) and an elderly fortune hunter (Albert Conti), who commits suicide when she declines his offer of marriage. Returned to the U. S., she finds that her subterfuges, though a shade more extreme than she had intended them to be, have answered their purpose. A bleak young man of fashion...
...been observed loitering hopefully near her front door. She visits him at his apartment and succeeds in her frank efforts to have an affair with him. The comedy in this part of the action resides largely in the fact that the opera singer thinks the young man is a gigolo while the audience is sure that he is not. In what corresponds to the last act of the play-when the opera singer has given an inspired rendition of Tosca, dismissed a boring fiance-she discovers that her gigolo is an American impresario, traveling incognito with his good-humored aunt...
...horrid circumstances which may mar the financial success of a 5? & 10? store tycoon. Happy in Kansas City the tycoon and his dependents fall on miserable days when they move to a magnificent home in Manhattan. The tycoon's wife allows herself to be cajoled by a mustachioed gigolo. The son of the family becomes a whiskey-sot. The daughter, painfully snubbed by socialites, falls in love with one who does not snub her (Leslie Howard). A denouement of sorts arrives when the son, overcome by alcoholic despair, commits suicide in an airplane. The tycoon then begins to look...