- A restless young girl yearns to leave her rural environment and "get away from it all." One day she stumbles upon a film crew shooting a Western near her home. She makes friends with the film's leading man, who encourages her to try her luck as an actress, so she leaves her small town and goes to the big city to break into the picture business. However, things don't turn out quite the way she planned.—Anonymous
- Living in the country with her widowed mother, Mary Baker is bored with her rustic suitor Johnny Applebloom and longs to be in the city. When a motion-picture company comes to Mary's New Jersey town to film a Western, Mary's fright at seeing "Indians" ruins a take, but serves to introduce her to leading man Kenneth Driscoll. After Driscoll invites Mary to the studio, Mary's attractiveness lands her the role of ingenue, but she fails her screen test and sadly prepares to return home. Driscoll, who earlier eluded his long-time lover, actress Vivian Carleton, for the company of a younger minor actress, now offers to support Mary in the city. When she reluctantly agrees, Driscoll arranges a wine party to celebrate. During the party, Mary's mother arrives, as Mary, drunk for the first time, is the gayest. Driscoll succeeds in keeping Mary's mother unaware of his intentions toward Mary, and suggests that Mary return home. Johnny meets her at the station, while Driscoll and Vivian are reconciled.—Pamela Short
- Mary Baker, a young country girl, longs for the city. Although in a way fond of her sweetheart, Johnny Applebloom, she dreams of romantic knight who worships her. One day she is astonished to see some of the gaily dressed lords and ladies of her romantic fancy wandering about the village. She approaches Kenneth Driscoll, the handsomest of them all, and learns that they are not really lords and ladies, but members of a moving picture company taking scenes in the village. Driscoll is attracted to the girl. He sympathizes with her loneliness and longing for romance, and tells her that in pictures she would get all the thrills she could desire and gradually so fires her imagination that she decides to go to the city to try her luck in the motion picture world. Through the influence of Driscoll and despite the jealous protest of Driscoll's sweetheart, Vivian Carleton, Mary is promised the ingenue role in a production and in joyous anticipation she awaits the result of her trial picture, but all her hopes are doomed to disappointment, for the test is a failure. She is told by the director that she will never make a picture actress. She hates to return to the village a failure, and yet it is impossible to remain in the city without funds and without work. Her bitter reverie is interrupted by Driscoll. He tells her there is no need for her to go back to the village; she can remain in the city with him and he will be glad to take care of her. Mary yields to his pleadings, not realizing that she is playing on the edge of a dangerous abyss. Driscoll gives a party to celebrate her first night in her handsome new apartment which he has fitted up for her. Mary, who has drunk for the first time in her life, is the gayest of them all and is just rising to toast the crowd when the door opens and her mother enters. Mrs. Baker, homesick for her daughter, had come to the city to seek her out. The crowd at first inclined to ridicule the little old country woman, are silenced by Driscoll and the old mother is led to believe the party a respectable affair at which she is the honored guest. The presence of her mother brings Mary to a realization of how dangerous was the fire with which she has been playing and she begs her mother to take her home. Back in the country, she is welcomed by Johnny, while in the city Driscoll returns to his more congenial sweetheart, whom he had neglected for the village girl.—Moving Picture World synopsis
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