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Her Moment Synopsis

In a small Romanian village, peasant girl Katinka Veche falls in love with Jan Drakachu, a bright young man who spends his days studying. Jan wins a scholarship to an American university, graduates, and becomes a successful engineer, while Katinka, left behind in the village, is sold into slavery by her cruel, dissolute father. Her owner, Victor Dravich, takes her to his gambling house in Syria, where he beats her and forces her to become his mistress. When the house is raided, Dravich takes her with him on his travels around the world until they finally settle in a small Arizona mining camp. Katinka sees Jan there but is too ashamed to speak to him. Broken, she sends for her old tutor Boris, who comes to Arizona and kills Dravich but is shot by the sheriff. Katinka follows Jan to New York, where she is arrested, but he locates her in a girls' reclamation home and marries her.

The Curse of Eve Synopsis

When young Eva Stanley comes home from college, she finds that her mother is deeply involved in the movement to rescue "wayward" girls. Eva's boyfriend John Gilbert is sent west on a government job, and Eva finds herself lonely and neglected. She is lured onto the yacht of lecherous Leo Spencer, the dissolute brother of the district attorney. Leo drugs and then seduces Eva. When John returns home he finds that Eva is pregnant. They decide it's best for Eva to have an abortion, but when the D.A. finds out about it, he has them both John and the doctor arrested.