When, on a prank, shimmy dancer Marcia Meadows visits bookworm Horace Tarbox in his Yale dormitory, Horace falls madly in love and follows her to New York where he and Marcia marry. Denounced by his wealthy father, Horace attempts to support Marcia through his writing, but all his manuscripts are rejected, and he is fired from every job.

• Metro Pictures Corporation
• Viola Dana
• Gareth Hughes
• William Quinn
• Sidney De Gray
• Lawrence Grant
• Edward Jobson
• Anne Schaefer
• William V. Mong