- In 1895, noted actor Lloyd Phillips leaves the stage after his wife dies in childbirth. Blaming his infant daughter Dixie for his wife's death, Phillips leaves her with Mrs. Hughes, his housekeeper. Meanwhile, Mrs. Moore, a wardrobe mistress who has kept a scrapbook on Phillips, must raise her infant daughter Florence alone when her husband dies. Eighteen years later, Mrs. Hughes has squandered all of Phillips' money on her ne'er-do-well son Bert. Dixie then leaves and goes to New York where she receives a part in a Broadway play from Marc Herbert, her father's friend. When Phillips returns looking for Dixie, Mrs. Hughes and Bert convince Florence, Bert's new wife, to pose as Dixie. She soon is disgusted by the plot, however, and returns to her mother, with whom Dixie now lives. Meanwhile, Herbert innocently sends Phillips word of Dixie's success, but when he goes to see her, she bitterly rebukes him. Phillips again leaves, but eventually he and Florence realize their feelings for each other and are able to marry after Bert dies in a burglary attempt. After Mrs. Moore's death, Dixie is reconciled to her father.—Anonymous
- Lloyd Phillips, a noted actor, has just concluded the performance of a new play in one of New York's leading theaters in 1895, and in which he has made an unqualified hit. Congratulations are heard on all sides, but in the midst of all the excitement he takes time to send a telegram to his wife. Just as the producer, Mark Herbert, is telling Lloyd Phillips of his great success, a message arrives which says that a baby girl was born but that his wife is sinking in health rapidly. Phillips does not stop to hear anything more but rushes away to be at the bedside of his wife. He, however, arrives too late. The great love he bore for his wife overcomes him and he experiences a great aversion for the newborn infant. He cannot even bear the sight of his little daughter and makes arrangements to leave at once, sending word to the manager that he will never act again. He places the infant in the care of the housekeeper and her husband, the butler, who have a young son named Bert, and tells them that he will send money each week to provide for the child's needs. After making final arrangements, he takes up his hermitage on a lonely island. Mrs. Moore, the maid at the theater, is a humble admirer of the noted actor. She has an invalid husband. One day she thoughtlessly leaves her purse which contains the key to the box wherein she keeps clippings of the actor. While she is in an adjoining room, putting their daughter to bed, he seizes the box, unlocks it and looks over the contents. He calls her. A short scene occurs in which he accuses her of being in love with the actor. He goes into a violent rage and in his excitement he is suddenly seized with an epileptic fit in which he dies. The next scenes are eighteen years later. The housekeeper and her husband are a very dishonest couple and they use the money which has been sent them regularly for the care and education of Lloyd Phillip's daughter for the education of their own son Bert, whom they have sent to college. They let the house go to ruin and we see the son returning from college a regular fop. He shows great disgust at the appearance of his parents, the husband being a regular drunkard and sot. While the mother and son are discussing matters, the husband, in one of his drunken spells, accuses his wife and son of using the money which Lloyd Phillips has sent for the education of his daughter. The actor's daughter (Dixie) overhears the conversation and that night she runs away. The next morning a letter is received from the actor saying he will return home, and at the same time the housekeeper finds the note which Dixie left. Fearful as to what the actor will say, the housekeeper and her husband turn to their son for his advice. He thinks of a scheme in which he will get some girl to impersonate Dixie, marry her, and so get the money which is Dixie's by right. The scheme looks good to him and he sends word to an old sweetheart of his who works in a department store to come at once and marry him. This girl, Florence Moore, is the now-grown daughter of Mrs. Moore, the theater maid. Reaching the city, Dixie sees in the papers that the old play in which her father starred is to be revived, and thinking that perhaps they may remember her, she goes to the theater and interviews her father's former manager. He gives her the chance she wishes and places her in the cast of the revived play. The story then goes back to the old house, and we find the housekeeper and her husband trying to make the place look neater. Their son, Bert, has now married his old sweetheart and brings her to the house to impersonate Dixie when Lloyd Phillips returns. When Flo realizes that she is expected to impersonate Dixie, she rebels, but they tell her she has gone too far now to back out and she is terror-stricken and sorrowful. Bert, however, assures her that Dixie is dead and she finally agrees to the deception. In the meantime, Dixie is playing a part in the revival of her father's play, and Mrs. Moore, in looking over the program recognizes her name as the same as the one of the former star whom she so greatly admired. She makes friends with Dixie and tells her she knew her father very well. Dixie is greatly interested, and after a short friendship, goes to live with the maid. Lloyd Phillips returns home and Flo is introduced as his daughter. He becomes very fond of her and they take long walks together. Bert becomes very impatient and attempts to hasten matters by announcing that Flo has promised to marry him. Flo suddenly realizes that association with Lloyd Phillips has made her husband and his family distasteful to her. A scene is precipitated in which their marriage is discovered and in anger Phillips leaves. Back in the theater, Dixie has given promise of talent and is encouraged by Lloyd Phillips, former manager, who, hearing that Phillips has returned home, sends him word of Dixie's success. Upon receipt of this letter, Lloyd Phillips realizes that there has been some imposition and goes at once to see his real daughter. He arrives at the theater too late, however, to meet her and the manager takes him to the cheap lodging house where Dixie lives with Mrs. Moore. Flo, alive to the character of her husband and his family, has left them and comes home to her mother. There Lloyd Phillips finds the three women, and his true daughter is made known to him. He offers to make amends, but Dixie says he went his own way for nineteen years and now she will go hers. He leaves for his island, but a new vision has replaced the old. He cannot forget Flo. They are brought together again by the death of Mrs. Moore, who, seeing how affairs are between Flo and Phillips commissions the former to take her loved box of clippings to the actor, on her death. Flo is free, her husband having been killed while burglarizing a house, and a reconciliation with Phillips, and another between Dixie and her father ends the play.—Moving Picture World synopsis
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