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Raoul is bitter after he is disabled in a car accident. He rejects Peggy, the woman who still loves him, but she refuses to abandon him. One night Captain Jimmy tells them a tale about a woman who refuses to leave the drunken beachcomber with whom she has fallen in love. The story leads Raoul to finally accept his true feelings.
Opal Martinez is a vaudeville performer with ambitions to become a serious actor. When her partner, Merle, sails to America to join her fiancé Opal accompanies her, hoping she will achieve her dream in the United States. A film director, Henry Washington Ward, is on the voyage and Opal sets out to impress him, with mixed success.
(p. 7, 52 - 53)
Visitorsi"Gay Morning came to my doorway,",D. L. Waraker,
single work poetry
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