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Ralph Courtland and Pierre Felix s are sitting in their Fifth Avenue Club Asscnssing the eternal question—wo man. Ralph contends that it is birth and breeding that make the gentle woman, but Felix, who is a designer of fashionable apparel, claims in three months he can make a lady of anyone he may happen to pick up on the street, simply by dressing her properly. An old organ-grinder and a young woman, leading a monkey by a string, stop in front of the club to gather some pennies, and Ralph and Felix de cide to make her the subject of the tent. The wager is for $25,000 and expenses, and the stakes are placed with Allen Tait, a young lawyer. Ralph goes to California, where his Aeroplane is to be entered in a race, and Pierre, fitting out Bianca with natrai clothes and installing her in a handsome apartment, begins hhis experiment. Blanca wears her new garments as if born to the purple, and is soon introduced to society at a charity ball and bazaar given by Ralph's mother, Pierre introducing her as a Russian countess, Ralph returns in time to meet her, and not knowing, her identity is delighted with her. He pays her so much attention that Pi erre’s jealousy is aroused. Pierre, madened by her exotic beauty, at tempts to embrace her, when he es corts her to her new apartments after the ball. She is so infuriated that she returns at once to the old organ grinder, Pierre apologizes profusely, and persuades her to return, so that ay win the wager. .
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Woodland Daily Democrat
Woodland, California, US
Fri, Feb 02, 1917
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