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The Land of Jazz Synopsis
Nina, engaged to a French captain, and Nancy, engaged to a doctor who runs an insane asylum on an island, are friends. When the doctor catches Nancy kissing the captain, known for kisses with a "heavenly kick," he breaks the engagement. In an effort to win back the doctor for Nancy, Nina pretends to be a bit "off" and becomes an inmate of the sanitarium, where she joins in the merriment with the other inmates, chasing in and out of rooms, and shimmying. By the time Nancy and her friends arrive at the sanitarium to see what is going on, it is too late, for Nina and the doctor have fallen in love and will marry.
An Amateur Devil Synopsis
Carver Endicott, a young sophisticate, is rejected by his fiancée for being too foppish and dull. When she feigns an interest in his father, Carver attempts to disgrace his family name by working as a farmhand and later as a busboy in a hotel. However, the newspapers only praise him for his self-sacrificing principles; and finding that he cannot bring shame to the family through menial labor, he takes up with a notorious actress. But when this maneuver also fails, he returns to his former fiancée, who has no further complaint about his being an inexperienced dullard.
"The Land of Jazz" holds a slight edge in general audience appreciation, but "An Amateur Devil" offers its own unique cult appeal.
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