50 minutes
1/29/1917
A lonely wife runs off with a traveling actor, taking her boy with her but leaving her daughter behind. The boy, Byron Bennett, grows up, and is stranded back in Mayville with a theater troupe. To make enough money to get out of town, they teach the local fire department how to put on a play. While the village cutie Grace Jessup is being shown how to act, one of the troupe tries to seduce her. Byron, knowing what the lecher is up to, even if Grace doesn't, follows the pair and chokes the man senseless.
Lionel Barrymore
as Byron Bennett
Ethel Corcoran
as Grace Jessup
Frank Currier
as Col. Jessup
Walter Hiers
as 'Skinny' Smith
J. Herbert Frank
as Percy Pennington
Richard Thornton
as 'Solly' Harris
Maude Hill
as Hattie Harrison
Kate Blancke
as Mrs. Ryan
Hugh Jeffrey
as Lester Montague
Mary Ross
as Lottie Lee
Charles Eldridge
as Seth Perkins
William Harvey
as Hen Springer
Louis Wolheim
Hal Wilson