Bar-Mitzvah
A wife returns home after having been shipwrecked for several years and finds that her husband has remarried, and his new wife is a lazy, gold-digging tramp.
A wife returns home after having been shipwrecked for several years and finds that her husband has remarried, and his new wife is a lazy, gold-digging tramp.
Gertrude Bulman
Feigele
Sam Colton
Sam
Benjamin Schechtman
Yudele
Boris Thomashefsky
Israel
A wife returns home after having been shipwrecked for several years and finds that her husband has remarried, and his new wife is a lazy, gold-digging tramp.
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