Peter Jones is a young man who arrives on Broadway from Chillicothe, Ohio, hoping to invest $20,000 in a play and turn a profit sufficient to buy a local hotel back home. He is conned by Joe Lehman and Jack McClure into backing their play with a 49-percent stake. The play opens out-of-town in Syracuse and bombs. Lehman and McClure want out, and Jones buys them out
Jack Mulhall
as Peter Jones
Greta Nissen
as Mary Martin
Sam Hardy
as Joe Lehman
William Demarest
as Jack McLure
Gertrude Astor
as Fanny Lehman
