Abie's Imported Bride

When Abie Lavinsky, the son of the owner of the prosperous Lavinsky woolen mills, learns of the plight of Jews starving in Russia, he sets out to collect money to help alleviate their hunger and suffering. He asks the workers at his father's factory to contribute and then, at the sarcastic urging of his father, arranges a charity ball at which he raises $100,000 from his jazz-minded friends. Abie is then elected to go to Russia with the money, and he makes plans to depart immediately. Max Rosenthal, a professional matchmaker, interests the elder Lavinsky in a young girl in Russia, and Abie violently opposes the match. His father is unmoved by Abie's pleas to be reasonable, and Abie is delegated to make the arrangements to bring the young girl to the United States to be wed to the elder Lavinsky. Abie falls in love with her himself, and they decide to be married, fully expecting Abie to be disinherited by his father. When they return to the United States, however, the elder Lavinsky greets them with love, showing Abie a telegram from Max, "Your plan worked fine. Abie swallowed it hook, line and sinker; no danger from flappers now; Abie safely married and on way home." After a few minutes of chagrin, Abie is reconciled with his father.