Summary
A tempestuous sibling rivalry erupts when the younger sister's magnetic allure threatens to eclipse her elder sibling's romantic prospects. The elder, abetted by their manipulative mother, orchestrates a grotesque metamorphosis: the younger is drapéd in infantile garb, recast as a 'baby vamp' to disarm her seductive power. This grotesque charade succeeds initially, yet the transformed sister retains an eerie, childlike charm that bewitches her admirer, who becomes complicit in the deceit. When the charade unravels, the lovers' clandestine union is thwarted by a sanctimonious clergyman who enforces the girl's return to her mother's control. Walter Graham's script spirals through delusional domesticity, interrogating the corrosive interplay of familial obligation, gendered power dynamics, and the absurdity of aesthetic commodification.
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The younger of two sisters is sufficiently attractive to steal the other's admirers. To stop this pirating, mother and elder sister conceive the idea of putting the baby vamp into rompers, leaving her a baby, but no longer a vamp. The scheme works well, but the girl is as attractive as a child as she was as a young lady, and the young man in the case is willing to play with dolls in order to be near her. Her real age is finally discovered, but when the couple try the elopement act, the minister orders the child sent back to her mother.
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