- Aerial dancer La Syrena, whose jealous husband kills her while she performs in midair. Her daughter, Jennie Raeburn, soon orphaned, grows up unaware of her mother's occupation, but nonetheless feels the urge to dance. She makes a successful stage debut and gets caught up in the social world of the theater. A cousin from the country, Zachary Trewehella, who has always loved Jennie, disapproves of her sudden obsession with wealth and status, but Jennie ignores his warnings. As a result, she has a disastrous affair with a society man, and realizes that her cousin was correct. In the end, bitter over her last affair, she reluctantly marries Zachary, but soon falls in love with him.—Pamela Short
- Inheriting a taste for dancing from her parents a little girl seeks on every occasion to practice the art. But, though her mother favors her ambitions, her severe aunts do not, and it is not until she grows into young womanhood that she can gratify her wish to become a successful dancer. Success crowns her efforts and she becomes a popular star. Drifting into Bohemia, she almost becomes the prey of a profligate man about town, but escapes his clutches and gives her hand and heart to an honest young countryman. Happiness appears to be in sight for the girl. But her former lover returns and arouses jealousy in her young husband, from whose mind, however, all suspicion is removed by the disappearance of the ballet girl's assailant. Thus the ex-dancer and her husband settle down to a happy married life.—Moving Picture World synopsis
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