Summary
In the gilded labyrinth of 1918 Manhattan, where fortunes are minted faster than reputations, identical sylphs Yancsi and Roszika Dolly—mirror‐images carved from champagne and nerve—gamely barter their matrimony for liquidity. Their suitors, Jack Hobson and Tom Hylan, wear privilege like bespoke spats; the twins counter with a wager: amass a million dollars or keep their hearts under lock. Enter a celebrated psychologist peddling an occult proposition: cure a melancholic maharajah who loathes his luminous bride, and the windfall is theirs. Off the sisters glide, past velvet-roped palace doors, into a perfumed penthouse court where jewels click like castanets and every smile is double-edged. Hypnosis, not heartbreak, proves the culprit—uncle Rajah Ismael’s mesmeric ring shackles the sovereign’s affections. A rooftop pursuit, a near-drowning in champagne vats, a rooftop skylight shatter: the twins pirouette through peril, until Yancsi’s sleight-of-hand lifts the cursed ring and slips it onto the princess’s trembling finger. The spell snaps; love rushes back in polychrome. Coffers bulging, the Dollies exit in a confetti of ticker-tape, ready to trade vault combinations for wedding bands.
Synopsis
Sisters Yancsi and Roszika Dolly are loved by Jack Hobson and Tom Hylan respectively, but the twins refuse to marry until they are as wealthy as their prospective husbands. Accordingly they agree, in exchange for a million dollars, to aid a celebrated psychologist who is developing a cure for an ailing maharajah. The maharajah inexplicably detests his bride, a beautiful princess, and the Dolly sisters are sent to his New York palace to learn the cause of his odd behavior. They soon discover that the maharajah has been hypnotized by his uncle, the Rajah Ismael, but the spell is broken when, after a series of dangerous adventures, one of the twins obtains a ring from the maharajah and gives it to the princess. As the maharajah takes his wife in his arms, the Dolly sisters return home with their million and prepare to marry their sweethearts.
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