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The Manicure Girl Faces a Bold Bowery Plot
A Belveigh hotel manicure girl narrates a comic scheme involving a rich suitor named Mr. Hardy and Grace Passay. She crafts a theatrical con, staging a dinner and theater outing to trap a wary fiancé, while exposing a scheming mother and a lonesome guardian. The caper ends with Grace and Hardy planning a wedding, and the girl being mistaken for a respectable Williams by a Bowery mother.
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Bessie
Heaven
Mr. Passay
Passay
Vander Cashes
Whiteners
Grace
Hardy
Phil
Belasco
Grandpa
Mr. Hardy
Mother
Frank
Young Hardy
Charley's
Belveigh
New York
Bowery Way
Park Row