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The action takes place in a supposed farmhouse, whence Dorothy a sales lady in Gimbel's has gone to visit her cousin for a two weeks' respite from the roar of the metropolis. Cousin is a girl who is nutty about going to Broadway, seeing the cabarets and all that. She contends that all a girl needs do is to "vamp" a rich lad and that the latter will fall via such methods, and like it, rather than be attracted by the "shrinking violet." She tells Dorothy she is going to prove it by vamping a "millionaire" who lately arrived in the village and suggests that Dorothy try the violet method. The greenback kid arrives, and right oft the reel falls for the better looking store girl. The crude work of the country blonde fails to register. While the boy goes out to feed gas to his flivver, the vamp extracts his bankroll from his coat pocket. Returning, he discovers the loss. Dorothy takes it upon herself to save her cousin, who had lied by saying the money-boy was to marry her. He exits, but comes back to say he knew all along that Dorothy didn't nab his money, so the finish finds Gimble's minus a good salesgirl The theme is different from that of the hackneyed "triangle" playlet and therefore welcome for small time bills.
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Variety, 54:4 (03/21/1919)