- Phillips Christy, a strait-laced amateur sociologist from a wealthy family, subscribes to the theory that people are shaped by their environments. When he fall in love with Diane, a showgirl from the Follies, he sees a chance to prove that his theory is correct: he will marry her and mold her to be "cultured" and "sophisticated." However, fate intervenes to put a crimp in his plans.—frankfob2@yahoo.com
- Phillips Christy, a millionaire aristocrat, is a man of delightful theories, one of which is that environment is the sum and substance of life. He is writing a book promulgating this theory, which his ambitious sister Marcia urges him to finish. His chum Don Livingston coaxes him to join a theater party. At a supper after the performance he meets Diane, the gayest of the girls of the Follies, and falls captive to her. He tells Marcia he will lift Diane of the Follies to their level, to the heights. After a few years of married life, Diane wearies of life on the heights. Her husband, engrossed with his studies, does not realize this. She pines for her own people of the theater. Even her child's exquisite charm falls to interest her. Hungry for applause, Diane invites some of her former chums to visit her. Phillips realizes that his theory has proved false; his wife, after the most careful training toward the uplift, has sought her level in the chorus and filled his house with cigarette-smoking, cocktail-drinking women of the theater. Resentful at her husband's attitude regarding her friends, Diane deserts her husband and child and is immediately installed as the star of the Follies. Amidst of her triumph a message comes to her from her husband requesting her presence at their child's sickbed, but little Bijou dies before she arrives. After the sad rites over the little child are performed, Phillips asks Diane if she desires to remain in this home under the protection of his name. She answers him truthfully, "I am going back to my own life, to the people who understand me. You and I walk different paths and talk different languages. Our paths need never cross and we have nothing to say to each other. The one interest that bound us together, our little girl, is no more. Neither of us has anything to forgive, nor to remember. I wish you success and happiness I am going now to seek them for myself." The husband and wife separate and each knows that the separation is as final as if the world had ended.—Moving Picture World synopsis
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