- Motherless Phyllis Ladd runs the household of her father John, a railroad president, who loves her but dreads the day that she will marry and leave. To make her social debut, Phyllis leaves her hometown of Carthage and accepts the invitation of Mrs. Fenshaw, a Washington social matron, to live with her. Phyllis soon tires of the stuffy life and boring suitors and returns. At a matinee road-show performance, Phyllis becomes infatuated with actor Cyril Adair. When she invites him for tea, the vain actor accepts, hoping to seduce her. After more meetings, Cyril's discarded lover informs Ladd, who demands that the romance cease. Phyllis elopes with Cyril, who, touched by her devotion, marries her. Although their life is plagued by Cyril's alcoholism, firings and inability to get new roles because Ladd influences theater managers to reject him, Phyllis patiently tries to bring out the best in her husband. When Phyllis and Cyril refuse Ladd's bribes to end the marriage, Ladd relents, backs a show in which Cyril is to star and is reconciled with the couple.—Pamela Short
- Phyllis Ladd, whose mother died when Phyllis was twelve, is the idol of her father, a successful businessman in the town of Carthage. At fifteen, Phyllis takes her place as the head of her father's house and soon develops a remarkable capacity for directing the affairs of the home. The father looks forward with dread to the time when Phyllis will marry, both because he fears she may marry a man unworthy of her and because, in any event, he will lose her. When Phyllis is ready to make her social debut, her aunt, Mrs. Fensham, who is prominent in Washington society, invites her to the capital. Phyllis tires of the ultra-correctness of Washington life, and of the boresome suitors, so she returns to Carthage, where she falls into the routine of her former social life. At a matinee, she sees Cyril Adair, a young stage hero, and falls in love with him. She writes him asking him to call. Adair, who is vain, laughs at his conquest and accepts. Other meetings follow, about none of which does Phyllis inform her father. Later her father receives an anonymous letter, connecting Phyllis' name with that of Adair. Ladd is astounded. Wrathfully he orders his daughter to break off the affair. She refuses. The writer of the letter, it transpires, is a woman member of Adair's company whom he had thrown aside. Adair finds to his surprise that Phyllis is quite ready to run away with him. They make hurried preparations and take a midnight train out of Cartilage. Adair, touched by the complete surrender of the girl, withstands the temptation that comes to him and marries her. In the life which they begin to lead together, Phyllis exerts all her womanly tact, courage and patience. She believes that Adair has great capacity for a pure, high love and she sets herself to work indefatigably to develop the best that is in him. When he comes home drunk, she does not chide him, but in patient silence awaits his hour of repentance. He is amazed at such treatment. It leads him to an understanding of the depth of her love for him. Adair is discharged. He secures a new and better role, but again is discharged, for John Ladd is using his influence to keep his unwelcome son-in-law out of employment. Phyllis, however, stands by her husband. Ladd's bribes do not tempt Adair to give Phyllis up. Then John Ladd relents. He places the power of his dollars behind Adair. A new play is prepared. Adair has the leading role. A brilliant future opens before the young actor as he and John Ladd clasp hands in a bond of friendship. Father and daughter are joyfully re-united.—Moving Picture World synopsis
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