- While on the job, Neva Blaine, a seasoned cabaret girl, is assigned to the well-to-do Warren Kennedy, who has come to her club to forget a recent romantic humiliation. Kennedy was to marry Blanche Calloway, but Ellis Hopper, his rival, seduced her and forced her to appear at the wedding with a note detailing her betrayal. As revenge, Kennedy decides to remake Neva, by schooling her in the ways of society, pair her with Hopper, then, at the proper moment, reveal her lowly background. Although she loves Kennedy, Neva wins Hopper's hand as instructed but, on the day of the wedding, writes to her mentor imploring him to save her from the marriage. When Kennedy refuses to intercede, Neva, desperate with grief, spills wine on her wedding gown and pretends to be drunk in the church, causing the guests to flee and Hopper to denounce her. Her fate apparently sealed, Neva goes off to live alone, but Kennedy, realizing his love for her, saves her from a lonely existence.—Pamela Short
- Neva Blaine, a cabaret girl in a cheap café in a great city, at the price of every youthful and womanly hope has retained her virtue. Her coldness, cynicism, hate and disillusionment form a background for her frantic efforts to help young girls who enter the café with men who prey. Between her songs at the cabaret she habitually tells her fortune with playing cards. Into her life came Warren Kennedy, wealthy society man. He was to have been married to Blanche Calloway, a social butterfly, when his enemy, Ellis Hopper, intrigued against him. Hopper succeeded in getting Miss Calloway to wed his son, leaving Kennedy shamed amid the wedding guests at a great church. Hopper further humiliates him by personally delivering the note in which the girl tells of her treachery. To forget the tragedy of his love, Kennedy began a night of debauchery, ending in the dive where Neva worked. She was selected to get his money. Instead, she fell in love with him. A plot of revenge occurred to Kennedy. He determined to educate Neva in social affairs, launch her as a wealthy tourist, have her trap his enemy into marriage, and then he, Kennedy, would feel his revenge on exposing her origin and Hopper's plight. She does her part successfully, winning Hopper but loving Kennedy, who rejects her efforts to become more than a friend to him. She despises Hopper. On the day of the wedding, she delays preparations to write a note to Kennedy, imploring him to save her from the unwelcome bridegroom. Kennedy informs her it is either Hopper or the slums for her future. In desperation she prepares to suffer the wedding, when she determined on a tragic relief. She secured a bottle of wine, spilled much of the contents over her wedding dress, so the odor was offensive, then pretended drunkenness and reeled through the fashionable crowd toward the altar. The guests fled from her. Hopper horrified denounces her. She returned to her room, abject in her woe. Then Kennedy could not resist the forces that drew him to her. He went to her room, they exchanged vows of love, and both their lives were made happy.
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