Captain of the Yale football team, Paul Potter becomes engaged to his small-town Indiana sweetheart Sylvia Castle but once in the big city he becomes involved with married society girl Muriel Evers and finds Sylvia too provincial, ending their engagement. In time Sylvia meets alcoholic actor, Henry Leamington, who encourages her to become an actress while she helps him get sober. In New York she finds success and becomes reacquainted with Paul for whom she still has feelings, but comes to realize he is a lout and returns to Henry.
Frank Mayo
as Paul Potter
Kathryn Adams
as Sylvia Chase
J. Barney Sherry
as Henry Leamington
Lila Leslie
as Muriel Evers
John Gilbert
as Carl Wilmerding
