Edith Hardy uses charity funds for Wall Street investments in hopes of buying some new gowns. She loses all the money and borrows from wealthy oriental Tori. When her husband gives her the amount she borrowed, Tori won't take it back, branding her shoulder with a Japanese sign of his ownership. She shoots him. Her husband takes the blame. In court Edith reveals all to an angry mob. Written by Ed Stephan {stephan@cc.wwu.edu}
Richard Hardy, a hardworking stockbroker, labors overtime to keep up with the ruinous bills incurred by his beautiful but irresponsible wife Edith, a venal, spoiled socialite who is impervious to his pleas for fiscal restraint. Acting on what she believes to be an insider information, she impulsively embezzles $10,000 from the Red Cross charity she chairs for a stock tip. When she finds the money has been lost, she desperately turns to a Japanese ivory trader with whom she has been thoughtlessly flirting and persuades him to replace the money in exchange for an assignation. When her husband's long-awaited business deal finally materializes, she desperately tries to withdraw from their agreement by replacing the money. Angered and disappointed with her resistance to his advances, he uses a branding device to mark her shoulder as his property. Feeling violated, Edith shoots him in the shoulder and leaves. In order to protect his wife's reputation, Richard confesses to the crime and faces trial for attempted murder. Written by Gabe Taverney (duke1029@aol.com)
Bachelor Harry Quincey, head designer in a small-town cloth factory, lives with his selfish sisters, glamorous hypochondriac Lettie and querulous widow Hester. His developing relationship with new colleague Deborah Brown promises happiness at last...thwarted by passive, then increasingly active opposition from one sister. Will Harry resort to desperate measures?
教授艾玛拉斯(爱米尔·强宁斯 Emil Jannings 饰)执教于一所校风严谨规矩繁多的学校中,他自己的性格亦是如此,一生都循规蹈矩的他最看不惯的就是学生们桀骜出格的举动。一次偶然中,艾玛拉斯得知自己的一群学生要去看歌舞表演,怒不可遏的他当即决定前往剧场将这些不守规矩的黄毛小子们逮个正着。令教授意想不到的是,他的这一举动将永远的改写自己余生的命运。
劳拉(玛琳·黛德丽 Marlene Dietrich 饰)是剧场里的万人迷,几乎所有的男人都情不自禁的拜倒在她的石榴裙下,艾玛拉斯教授也不例外,当他在剧院里第一次见到劳拉时,便陷入了对她深深的迷恋中无法自拔。经过苦苦的追求,劳拉终于成为了艾玛拉斯的新娘,两人之间悬殊的个性和地位也为将要发生的悲剧奠定了基调。