Summary
A nickelodeon moon sours over the soda-fountain, where Jack Temple, uxorious yet chronically ogled, savors a vanilla scoop of temptation incarnate in the form of a crimson-lipped vamp who licks her spoon like a promise of perdition. Hours later, high above the city’s gas-lit arteries, the same siren ambushes him amid rooftop palms; their laughter ricochets off tin awnings until the iron gates clang shut, leaving them marooned on a neon island. Dawn finds Jack inventing an alibi stitched from desperation: a fictive sleepover at the apartment of one “John Brown.” His spouse, a connoisseur of marital paranoia, dispatches a telegram that yanks every hidden string: the real Brown, her adoring Neapolitan coiffeur, materializes with pomade and poetry, while the impostor Frank Fuller flounders in borrowed identity. Jealous wives orbit like demented satellites, until the vamp unfurls her true colors—cousin to Mrs. Temple, puppet-mistress of a therapeutic farce designed to cauterize the green-eyed infection.
Synopsis
Jack Temple adores his wife, but she remains extremely jealous of him. At an ice-cream parlor, Jack is attracted to a flirtatious vamp and meets her again later on a department store's roof garden. They linger so long that the store closes and the couple are locked out for the night. The next day, realizing that his wife will not believe the truth, Jack tells her that he spent the night with his friend, John Brown. Mrs. Templeton, suspecting that this is a lie, wires John Brown to come. Jack then convinces his friend Frank Fuller to pose as Brown, but the real Brown, who is Mrs. Temple's Italian hairdresser and is secretly in love with her, arrives on the scene. Brown's wife follows in a jealous panic. Then the vamp appears and confesses that she is actually Mrs. Temple's cousin, who hatched the whole scheme to cure her cousin's jealousy.
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