Foster & Kleiser billboard, San Francisco, 1922:

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[Photo: Shorpy]

Accompaniment from Paul Ash and his Synco-Symphonists, and Wallace at the organ.

Plot summaryAngela Gaskell [Betty Compson] travels and sails around the Pacific Ocean to rescue the man she loves, John Somers. Her task takes her from San Francisco bondage-servitude to a dance-hall in Honolulu to a remote South Seas island. She survives a shipwreck along the way.

The high point of Betty Compson's career came in 1928, when she starred as a suicidal prostitute in Josef von Sternberg's The Docks of New York. She managed a successful transition to talkies, but never really made it as a star. 

After retiring from the screen in 1948, she began a cosmetic line and helped her husband run a business called "Ashtrays Unlimited". For the discerning chain smoker.

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