
Robert Wayne is a prominent businessman, whose sister Edith is married to his friend Herbert Osborne. Osborne's business under attack by a rival, Howard Stratton.

Florence Margolies, E. Lloyd Sheldon
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Imagine, if you will, a chandeliered salon in 1916 Manhattan: marble busts of Caesar glare down while tycoons in tails barter empires between oysters and absinthe. Into this gilded menagerie strides Robert Wayne—William Farnum’s shoulders cutting the silhouette of a modern colossus—his smile a currency more potent th...

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" Imagine, if you will, a chandeliered salon in 1916 Manhattan: marble busts of Caesar glare down while tycoons in tails barter empires between oysters and absinthe. Into this gilded menagerie strides Robert Wayne—William Farnum’s shoulders cutting the silhouette of a modern colossus—his smile a currency more potent than the gold certificates in his vault. Yet within three reels, the same man will crouch inside a French barn, mud clotting the creases of a uniform that smells of someone else’s de..."


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