Quentard Lorris appoints several trustees to manage the fortune of his daughter Betty, who will inherit millions. The trustees, along with Lorris' secretary, Simon Slane, and suitor, Count Vorilla, are all anxious to get their hands on Betty's money.


Plot skeletons in top-hats, beware: the real scaffold here is patriarchal paranoia. The Romance Promoters is not, despite its coy title, a bureau that arranges affection; rather, it is a consortium of vultures who monetize courtship the way brokers short wheat futures. Harvey F. Thew and L.H. Robbins stitch their yarn...

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" Plot skeletons in top-hats, beware: the real scaffold here is patriarchal paranoia. The Romance Promoters is not, despite its coy title, a bureau that arranges affection; rather, it is a consortium of vultures who monetize courtship the way brokers short wheat futures. Harvey F. Thew and L.H. Robbins stitch their yarn with the same cynical needle that runs through Nobody's Wife and Adele, yet the silhouette feels closer to a caper—an upstairs-downstairs relay where every hand in white cotton gl..."
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