Four young college students find themselves with no money and a lot of debts. Each has received a peremptory refusal from home to send any more money to them and they are in despair. Suddenly Claude has an idea. They will hire Susan B. Gabonthy to lecture for them, clear about one hundred dollars apiece, and have enough to tide them over into the next term.
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Mary Maurice as Susan B. Gabonthy
Lillian Walker as Berta Barton - an Amateur Actress
Earle Williams as Matthew
James Morrison as Mark
Tom Powers as John
Flora Finch as A Suffragette
Frank Newburg as Luke
United States 23 August 1912
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