Adele has grown up in a tenement, but she longs for greater things. She gets her chance at the stage when her mother runs into an old friend, Blanche. Blanche has been working steadily in the theater, and she helps Adele get work. The young girl finds romance with Vincent Harvey, an aspiring composer. One day Adele suffers an accidental fall out of a window.
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Gladys Leslie as Adele
Carey L. Hastings as Adele's Mother
Peggy Burke as Blanche
Charles Emerson as Vincent Harvey
Clarine Seymour as Mary
Wayne Arey as John W. Horton
Justus D. Barnes as Vincent's Uncle
United States 05 July 1917
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