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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ulrika Woytich, a young woman with an irresistible personality, a consuming ambition and a total lack of scruples, comes up to Vienna "on the make." It is her intention to windlass the family fortune out of a miserly and almost?not quite?inhuman old uncle who has previously cheated her father and would apparently prefer to see her starve to death. It is in the midst of this undertaking, however, that accident opens a more brilliant prospect. The family of Helmut Mylius, a curio dealer, has been kept by him in a state of semi-starvation, shabbiness and sullen despair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gold*: What's Wrong with the World? | 6/16/1924 | See Source »

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