Crazy Man*
He Is an Idealist
The Story. Selma Thallinger, New York shopgirl, supplements her daily earnings by teaching every evening in the "Merry Grotto," an East Side dance-hall which provides partners for unattached men, under the guise of giving them "dancing lessons." According to the author, she is "innocent" in spite of the fact that she is the mistress of both Pete Ravanni, the proprietor, and Max Lisenco, his assistant. But she is discontent with this lot and decides to throw them both over. The...
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