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intriguing character analysis which appeared earlier this season in magazine form. It deals with the skyrocket like rise to fame of an ambitious dressmaker who rose to success through the vanity of her customers. ‘Wear Your Brains on Your Back’ is adapted early in her career as an enticement for girls of the chorus, and actresses, to pay more than they can afford for her fashionable creations. Lavish gowns and fragile, delicate negligees are the bait with which she lures them into her establishment. Credit extended freely is still further inducement for the girls to wear her expensive finery, although payment is invariably extracted for them. The dressmaker soon learns that many men are anxious to meet their customers. What better way than to have them meet casually over tea in her shop? This becomes her policy and she soon finds that men will quickly pay the bills if they are only informed their friends are in debt. But her mistake comes when she induces her son’s sweetheart to accept valuable dresses for which she cannot pay and then expects her to get the money from a wealthy man who also admires her. The outcome of this tangle in which ambition clashes with mother love is forcefully portrayed by an excellent cast.”
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