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...bride, because her father, of haughty Boston ancestry, cannot tolerate a penniless artist in the family. Twenty years later the embittered man is a head waiter in a superior U. S. eating-place. While on duty, he has occasion to save a youth (Robert D. Agnew) from a blond siren of the "swell-restaurant" set. The youth turns out to be the head waiter's son. Thus Destiny led the man without hope to happy fulfillment. Crime & Punishment.* Dostoievsky wrote a grand and gloomy novel about a Russian youth who seeks salvation in rationality and finds it in faith...
...Very Wise Virgin. "It's a wise virgin knows her own boiling point," declares 18-year-old Flapper-Siren Betty. Seeing her ensnare a best friend's fiance, one infers that Betty has known her own boiling point well and often. Her triumph is not for long, however. Along comes a Russian lady-of-the-world whose experience extends over and beyond the boiling point, who therefore lures away the bewildered fiance, leaving Betty to marry a bashful doctor of twoscore years and more. Ultimately the best friend recaptures the twice-pilfered fiance. Joan Bourdelle, as Betty...
Dawn in Detroit; Chanticleer [a siren] announces the dawn; the city stirs; the call to labor...
...Countess Salm von Hoogstraten: "Word came in from Long Island that a shipbuilder at Greenport is building me an all-electric yacht, 62 ft. long with a 14-ft. beam, which I will christen Fan Keva. She will have three 175-h.p. electric motors, electric piano, electric winches, galley, siren...
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes?Anita Loos's siren snooping about for goldfish...