- When Betty arrives from the Convent to visit her uncle's family they are careful to hide all the extreme low-necked gowns and other worldly things lest they shock the devout convent girl. Instead of shocking, Betty finds them fascinating and they install in her a desire to learn more about the fascinations of the world. When Jim Denning proposes to her, she says she loves him but she must see the world first. Angrily he leaves her as she sits beside the fireplace, whose dreamy flames inspire her to tempt a knowledge of things unknown to her. Out into the world she goes, where she sees and learns many things but with pangs and heartache. At a vital moment when she is about to faint dead away, the faithful Jim arrives and catches her in his arms. Betty awakens to find it has all been just a dream, and faithful Jim has no problem convincing her of the full meaning of a home and that the world and its false promises are not for her.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
- When Betty comes from St. Ursula's convent to visit her uncle's family in their town house in New York they are careful to hide all extreme, low-necked gowns, racy French novels and other worldly things which might shock the devout little convent girl. But Betty is by no means the demure little Miss Innocence they expect. She has had her fill of convent life. Even the possibility of a match with one of the finest young clubmen in New York does not satisfy her to remain a part of the smart Fifth Avenue life where by right of birth and fortune she belongs. One bright day the impulsive Betty disappears from her uncle's mansion, and from that time leads the life of a working girl. She starts as a salesgirl in the dress goods section of a big department store, but the floor walker gets too familiar and she has to quit. She applies for a position in the chorus at the Gaiety Theater, and the stage manager gives her a tryout as a dancer and though Betty dances beautifully the stage manager insists she first give him a little fee from her pretty lips, and Betty spurns it. Discouraged, Betty accepts the chance to give a trial performance at a local cabaret, but as she comes tangoing down the aisle one of the young rounders at a table tries to pull her on his knee. He is promptly knocked sprawling by the devoted clubman who has come there to forget his blues in the lights and music. But the café manager discharges her. He wants a different kind of girl. Disgusted at being insulted by employers, Betty next dons boy's clothes and passes as a young man, but a thick-headed policeman, searching for a young apache who has murdered his sweetheart, has to blunder into Betty's satchel in which she has been carrying her former feminine attire together with some of her own long, black curls which she has shorn to heighten the effect of her disguise. On seeing the unusual contents, the policeman at once sees visions of "the body," and poor Betty is placed under arrest. But Betty at last eludes him, only to be followed to a boarding house where she applies for a room. There the maid is smitten by Betty's "boyish charm" and when the police close in on the "boy" the maid loyally conceals her till they are gone. It is a case of from the frying pan into the fire, however, and Betty is decoyed into a gambling house by a "steerer." She is being fleeced of her money when her erstwhile pursuers become temporarily her rescuers, and she escapes when the police raid the establishment. But they recognize her and resume their pursuit. When they overtake her, Betty dives into a lagoon but arrives, exhausted, on the other side only to find the police awaiting her. What a relief, then, for Betty to wake and find it has all been but a dream. So when the clubman returns from the garden with some roses as a peace offering the better to renew his pleadings he finds Betty has undergone a profound change. Betty finds her glamor, in the long run, but it is the glamor of her own home and husband, and not the feverish romance of an Arabian Nights tale.—Moving Picture World synopsis
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