Henry Leyford Gates

A traveling sideshow performer sees her trapeze-artist boyfriend fall to his death and suspects his partner of deliberately killing him, finally exposing him with the help of the handsome replacement for her high-flying ex-lover. Cliched murder mystery. (allrovi.com)

Tasia (Dolores del Río), a beautiful dancer lower class of Russia, falls heir to the throne Prince, Grand Duke Eugene (Charles Farrell), but only admired from a distance. At the outbreak of the Russian Revolution, the Duke falls in captivity and this allows Tasia be near him. (imdb)

Aurora Mardiganian, a young and beautiful Armenian girl, lives with her parents in the Turkish city of Havpoul. Her father, a prosperous merchant, was preparing to send her to the West to be educated. For centuries the Armenians had been terrorized by the Turks, but this was a period of serenity between the Turks and the Christian-Armenians. However, the War had hit Europe, and the Turks had informed the American ambassador, Henry Morganthau. (imdb)