This visually poetic, melodramatic silent western film, from Frances Marion""s adapted screenplay, was based on the 1925 novel by Dorothy Scarborough.She had been frightened by a jack-in-the-box type mechanical doll that had popped out of its box, and was shedding tears.Three of the characters would become involved in a love triangle.Befitting the film""s satirical heme of admiring or fantasizing about film idols on-screen while struggling in the real world, one might hypothesize that the Boy idolized current film star John Barrymore (who starred inSherlock Holmes (1922), wo years earlier), while the Girl resembled and aspired to be like cinema""s curly-locked sweetheart Mary Pickford, and the Sheik was an aspiring wanna-be Rudolph Valentino (who starred as the itle character inThe Sheik (1921).]:Willkommen, bienvenue, welcome, Fremde, etranger, stranger...Happy to see you...Welcome...To Cabaret.Simultaneously, as a railway train arrives at the Berlin station, the MC adds that "life is beautiful" in the club, although that is far from the truth:"Leave your troubles outside.