- Zaza is a music hall star in Paris. She meets Bernard Dufrene and a flirtation develops into an intense love on her part. She is in despair when she discovers that he already has a wife and child. To visit them and announce herself as the mistress of the husband and father is her first idea, but the charm of the child restrains her. She cannot strike the blow and passes off her visit with an improvised excuse. She dismisses Bernard and returns to the stage, where she gains real fame as a dramatic artist. Once more he seeks her, but again the memory of the child saves her to her better self. Moving Picture World 1915.—Pamela Short
- Zaza is a popular singer in one of the gayest music halls in Paris. She leads a very tempestuous life and is much sought after by the beaux of the city. One night she meets Bernard Dufrene, a man about town, behind the scenes, and after a frivolous flirtation, falls in love with him. It is not long before he establishes her in an apartment where they live happily for several months. Her infatuation for Bernard is the only real and lasting emotion that Zaza has ever experienced and she dedicates her whole crude nature to the task of making him happy. It is therefore a terrible blow to her to find that Bernard is married and has a little daughter. Stung to the depths of her savage nature by his duplicity, Zaza's first thought is for revenge. With fiendish accuracy she hits upon the plan of going straight to the wife of her betrayer and announcing herself as his mistress. This she believes the best way of obtaining the vengeance she craves. While still consumed with this passionate hate, she sets out on her mission. However, she meets the little daughter before she has an opportunity of denouncing her lover to the mother of the child. The sweet simplicity of the child, her ingenuousness and her thorough generosity so touch Zaza that she cannot bear to crush the child under the weight of the scandal that she knows will follow such a disclosure as she is about to make. The daughter therefore saves the father from disgrace. Totally disillusioned, Zaza now dismisses her lover and returns to the stage. Devoting herself utterly to her art and aided by the steeling power of a personal tragedy, she becomes the idol of Paris. Deprived of her other love, she seeks that of the public. Hearing of her triumphs, Bernard comes to renew his attention to Zaza and she, in the supreme struggle of her life against the overwhelming love she still has for the man, conquers her own emotions and sends him back to his wife and child who are still in ignorance of his double life. Zaza, with Bernard forever dismissed from her mind, devotes herself still more zealously to drama, in which she wins enduring fame.—Moving Picture World synopsis
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