- Opera singer Gina Gioverni only lives for her art and for her blind mother. One day, one of her admirers that she refused to marry commits suicide. Alexandre, a young artist, takes advantage of it to draw a satirical cartoon mocking the diva. His work happens to be published in the press and the public starts hissing her. She who is accustomed to the adulation of the public, finds it hard to stand general reprobation. She sets about taking vengeance on Alexandre...—Guy Bellinger
- Gina Gioverni, a beautiful and popular opera star, has but two passions, her old blind mother and her art. Scandal has passed her by and heart-free she is happy. Her beauty and talents, however, win for her suitors and admirers whom she does not desire. One of them, an English nobleman, writes and implores her for a hearing, saying that he has left wife and children for her. She answers with a note, telling him to return to the wife to whom he has sworn fidelity. Brokenhearted with his hopeless passion, he kills himself and innocently Gina is involved in the tragedy. Rene Alexandre, a rising young artist, hearing of the suicide and the cause, idly dashes off a cartoon depicting Gina sitting on a tombstone in a cemetery, and with the caption, "Another monument to Gina's beauty." His friends, against his wishes, send the cartoon to a newspaper, which gives it a prominent position in the next issue. The cartoon brings down upon Gina's head a storm of unjust condemnation, and it breaks upon her at the next performance in which she appears. She is hissed and berated, and is carried fainting from the stage. She learns the cause of her sudden unpopularity and determines upon revenge. With her old music teacher, she seeks out Alexandre in a dance hall and is introduced to him as Mlle. Verdant, an artist's model. Struck by her beauty and not recognizing her, he hires her to pose for him. His admiration grows as he comes to know her. As the picture is finished an operatic contract is tendered her which she accepts. She sends tickets for Alexandre for himself and friends for the opening performance, and on her card writes that she regrets she has not previously complimented him for his clever cartoon. The young men go to the performance, prepared to hiss the singer off the stage. Alexandre recognizes her and dumbfounded, prevents the hostile demonstration. Gina's performance wins the frantic applause of the audience, and flushed with success and happiness, she greets later, in her dressing room, Alexandre, now repentant and a tender lover.—Moving Picture World synopsis
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