Summary
In the silent era's poignant exploration of domestic alienation, 'No Children Wanted' chronicles the harrowing emotional exile of Dot Jarvis, a child whose presence is deemed an architectural and social inconvenience. Her parents, quintessential avatars of urban social climbing, prioritize the sterile prestige of a child-free apartment complex over the warmth of paternal duty. This rejection manifests as a forced relocation to a draconian boarding school, where Dot’s spirit is systematically battered by institutional cruelty. Her subsequent flight from this purgatory leads her to the pastoral sanctuary of a compassionate farmer, though the machinery of the law inevitably returns her to the cold custody of her progenitors. The narrative takes a sharp, geopolitical pivot when her father becomes entangled in a clandestine arms-smuggling conspiracy involving the Mexican border. It is only through a serendipitous photograph and the intervention of newspaper magnate Robert Chase that a total moral collapse is averted, forcing a profound, if belated, awakening in the Jarvis household.
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Little Dot Jarvis is tolerated, but not loved, by her ambitious parents, who send her to boarding school so they can move into a fashionable apartment building that does not allow children. At school, Dot is treated so cruelly that she runs away, but a kind farmer takes her to the police station and she is returned to her parents. When Dot's father becomes involved in a scheme to smuggle arms into Mexico, Dot's photograph prevents newspaper owner Robert Chase from exposing him. Repentant, Dot's parents finally give her the love she had so sorely missed.
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