Maggie De Cray and her daughter, Maybelle, run a theatrical boarding house. Horatio Payne is a star boarder. Olga Petrino, a vaudeville queen, arrives with her pet leopards. Horatio Payne makes eyes at Maybelle and incurs the enmity of Thomas Blake, a property man, who is fair Maybelle's intended.
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Sidney Smith as Aristo
Charles Le Moyne as Horatio Payne
Olga Celeste as Olga Petrino
Miss McKeen as Maybelle
Mrs. Prusche as Maybelle's Mother
United States 20 May 1916
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