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Show Woman Redeemed in 'Sweetheart of Doomed' The Ogden's Feature In the "Sweetheart of the Doomed," at the Ogden theater for three days beginning Tuesday the following is the synopsis: Mademoiselle Honore Zonlay, adventuress, adven-turess, nursing a bitter hatred for all mankind for the treachery dealt her by one in her youth, lives to make all I men pay for tho sin of this one. Through one of her victims, General Jacques du Presne. sne is enabled to meet General Gabriel Durand, an un- cle to the man, now dead, whom she i has never forgiven. Although Durand bears the reputation of being mdiffer-j mdiffer-j ent to all women, never having known any mistress save his army, Honore determines to first fascinate and en-1 en-1 snare and then visit upon him her accumulated ac-cumulated hatred and vengeance. She is introduced to Durand by Fresno Fres-no as his protege. He quickly succumbs suc-cumbs to her charms, will not listen to any scandal regarding her past, and somewhat sooner than she expects he asks her to be his wife, and with her consent announces their engagement to his assembled guests. Immediately following, Paul Montaigne, Mon-taigne, a dispatch bearer, arrives at the Durand chateau with a military message. He is a handsome j'oung man, an idealist and worshiper of beauty in any form, a born artist, fol-lpwing fol-lpwing a military career at the request re-quest of his mother. There is an Immediate Im-mediate mutual attraction between Paul and Honore, and as Durand retires re-tires to decipher the message, Honore has Paul served with refreshments with the compliments of "Mile. Durand, Du-rand, the general's sister." She is listening lis-tening to the young man's compliments compli-ments and enjoying his frank admiration admira-tion when Durand appears with tho return message. Paul leaves, drop- ping his identification card as he does so, which Honore picks up. Durand soon follows, his suspicions unaroused, asking Honore to explain to his guests that he may be absent for several weeks. After Durand's departure Honore bids Paul to her apartments in Paris, using the necessity for returning the identification card as an excuse There follow many meetings between the two, Honore being at first attracted to Paul only as she has been to other men, but under the spell of his frank admiration and sincere nobility of character, she realizes that she loves him, seeing in him the fulfillment of her girlhood dreams. She determines to renounce her past life and make an effort to prove worthy of him and his evident love for her. Eventually he ' declares his love and asks her to mar- d ry him. She confesses to him her de- M ception and tells him that she is not W the sister of Durand, but Honore Zon- W lay of Monte Carlo, and in spite of his m protests insists upon telling him of W her past life. Paul is shocked and S crushed with the disillusionment, but reiterates that it makes no difference; he loves her for herself. Advertisement. Advertise-ment. . |