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Young Dolly Lane has committed herself to becoming a star on the stage, but when she meets handsome and wealthy farmer Steve Hunter, she falls in love and marries him. Unfortunately, Steve soon loses his fortune and the couple is forced to move in with a friend, Teddy Harrington. Not long afterwards Steve's rich uncle dies, leaving him wealthy, but on that same day Dolly is asked to take the place of a stage star who has taken ill. She does and becomes the toast of Broadway, but now Steve wants her to return with him to the West and become a farmer's wife. She relents, but soon becomes bored with that role and longs to return to the stage.—frankfob2@yahoo.com

Dolly Lane is a poor and pretty little musical comedy soubrette, rehearsing and playing day and night, living in poor lodgings quietly and meagerly, and devoted to her work and stage ambition, which are the dominant factors in her life. One night, in the final scene of the play, she and her comrades throw confetti into the audience, nearly blinding a young man who sits in one of the front rows of the orchestra. Dolly's sincere concern over the accident amply atones for it, and the young man, Steve Hunter, induces his friend, a wealthy young chap, to take him behind the scenes after the performance. There he and Dolly meet, and their romance begins. Though not a devotee to the theater himself, Steve is not long in falling in love with little Dolly, and one night, after the lights of the theater are dimmed, they are made man and wife. One day Steve receives word that an old uncle in the West is dying and that he is to come to him immediately. Steve goes, and Dolly now gives all her heart and energy to her work, succeeding so well that when an accident happens one day at rehearsal to the leading woman, Dolly is given that exalted position and told to be ready that night. She hurries home, her heart full with the success so near at hand, to find Steve has returned from the west, the heir to his dead uncle's great wheat farm. She hears Steve's news, hardly conscious of what it means, and then quickly tells him of her own good fortune; but instead of congratulating her, Steve tells her she will have to abandon her position on the stage and go west with him. After a terrific struggle between ambition and love, Dolly yields, surrenders her career and leaves all behind her to go west. But she soon wearies of the quiet farm and Steve's seeming neglect of her for his work, and one day, revolting against it all, she returns to the city. There she finds a wealthy man only too ready to back her as a star in a new play. Trying to forget Steve, she throws her whole soul into her ambition, and the new play and star become the sensation of the theatrical season. But success without Steve to share, it turns to ashes in her grasp, and when that night the wealthy producer of the play comes to her dressing room, locks the door and demands the price of her triumph, she for the first time realizes the nearness of the abyss and its yawning terrors. As she desperately plays for time she hears Steve's voice. The manager hastily gives up the key, and she admits Steve while the other conceals himself. Steve, however, learns of his presence in the room, pulls him from his hiding place, and, with one glance of scorn at Dolly, leaves without hearing her explanation. Despairing and disillusioned, Dolly resigns from the case and takes the next train for the west. In the golden harvest fields, on a sunshiny day, she again meets Steve and tells him all, and as his forgiving arms embrace her the tawdry glitter of the tinseled past is forgotten.—Moving Picture World synopsis