In this story, an American scientist named Ned Faraway gets married to a German entertainer and starts a family. Radium poisons him, and he needs to go to Germany for a very expensive treatment in order to have any chance of being healthy again. Wife Helen goes back to work at a nightclub to try to raise money. She becomes known as the "Blonde Venus." As a way to get the money she needs faster, she gives up her body to millionaire Nick Townsend.
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In this story, an American scientist named Ned Faraway gets married to a German entertainer and starts a family. Radium poisons him, and he needs to go to Germany for a very expensive treatment in order to have any chance of being healthy again. Wife Helen goes back to work at a nightclub to try to raise money. She becomes known as the "Blonde Venus." As a way to get the money she needs faster, she gives up her body to millionaire Nick Townsend.
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