![]() There, Tori refuses to accept the money, demanding that instead she put out for him, as promised. Dick lets her write the check but, correctly suspicious of this limp excuse, follows her as she hotfoots it to Tori’s house. Edith chooses the moment to beg $10,000 from him-in order, she claims, to pay off her bridge debts. But then Dick arrives with the great news that his investments have borne fruit the Hardys have more money now than they can easily spend. ![]() The next day, accordingly, Edith pays off the fund and prepares to go keep her appointment with Tori. The calculating sexual predator Tori (Sessue Hayakawa). He gives her a check for the embezzled $10,000 on condition that tomorrow she grants him. First, the worthies of the fund have decided that “We’ll send the fund to the Belgians tomorrow.” Second, for all his blowharding, Jones’s investments have already lost the $10,000. What, she inquires, could Jones do with a stake of $10,000? “Let me invest it in United Copper tonight,” he replies, “and I’ll double your money tomorrow.” So she raids her wall safe for the Red Cross Fund’s $10,000-no one will ever know, after all.Ī few nights later at the Red Cross fundraiser ball, held at Tori’s house, Edith receives two blows. So irate is Edith over Dick’s veto of her dress purchase that that night, during a soirée the Hardys throw, she listens to braggart younger stockbroker Jones (Neill) and his disparagements of her relatively stodgy husband. She pleads that she needs the garment to retain her social standing as Treasurer of the Red Cross Fund-a fund that’s doing very well, because it now stands at $10,000. There arrives the day when he puts his foot down: the latest wildly expensive dress she’s bought must go back to the store, or else. In vain does stockbroker husband Richard “Dick” Hardy (Dean) complain that, until his current investments come to fruition, they can’t afford her extravagant lifestyle. Society wife Edith Hardy (Ward) spends her days spending money on herself-even at the expense of the servants’ wages-and knocking around with Japanese ivory merchant Hishuru Tori (Hayakawa), who has the habit of branding all his possessions with a hot iron to show his ownership of them. ![]() DeMille Scr: Hector Turnbull, Jeanie Macpherson Story: Hector Turnbull Cine: Alvin Wyckoff Cast: Fannie Ward, Sessue Hayakawa, Jack Dean, James Neill, Yutaka Abe, Dana Ong, Hazel Childers, Judge Arthur H.
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