- Because she has been dishonored by playboy John Radon, Stella Dean, a simple country girl, flees to the city to hide her guilt. There she develops a reputation as a profligate member of the chorus line, and eventually obtains great wealth as the courtesan known as the Black Nightingale. One day she meets Milton Taylor, an artist from her home town who knew her when she was an innocent country girl, and he prevails upon her to pose as his model of the Madonna. Stella agrees and is cleansed by the experience. When Milton discovers Stella's reputation, however, he begins to drink and leaves her, his illusions shattered. Repentant, Stella converts her mansion into a refuge for foundlings and returns to her home town of Pleasantville where, her soul cleansed, she is reconciled with Milton.
- Stella Dean, living a happy life in Pleasantville, happens one day upon the easel and brushes of Milton Tayor, an artist. Just as she finishes a caricature of "Daddy Long Legs" and labels it "The Great Artist, Milton Taylor," Taylor surprises her. She runs away laughing. John Radon resents her flirtation with the artist. She is in love with Radon. Her love for him is misplaced and she leaves her home in Pleasantville. When her mother reads her confession she dies of a broken heart. Milton Taylor is in love with Stella Dean and he is depressed when he learns that she has left home. He goes to New York. Stella is there, too. Under the name of Claire Leone she is with a musical show. In his search for a subject for a Madonna Taylor finds Claire but does not recognize her until the picture is finished. When the picture finally is on canvass Claire cries out: "So that's your joke, you cynical fool." Taylor begins to drink hard. Stella, who has been going the pace, too, repents. She finally transforms her home into a refuge for homeless girls. Taylor goes back to Pleasantville to recuperate. There he finds Stella in prayer in church. He watches her leave the church. She sees Radon taking another girl into an abandoned cabin, as he did her years before.—Moving Picture World synopsis
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