The same year it was adapted into a silent film The Chorus Girl's Romance starring Viola Dana as Marcia Meadows and Gareth Hughes as Horace Tarbox.

Marcia talks Horace into watching her in the Varsity Show, and he finds emotions and appreciation for a beautiful woman.

Towards the end of the story, this dynamic reverses: Horace's athletic shoulders financially supporting Marcia's writing, as she becomes the supposed "head" or thinker in the family, as an acclaimed writer.

The second major theme is the adjustment of a career goal for love, especially in the beginning stages of romance, which would be taken up again in the novel Tender is the Night.

[5] "I always felt a story in the [Saturday Evening] Post was tops", Zelda later recalled, "But Scott couldn't stand to write them.