Edwin Rowley is a talented but uncommercial playwright. Stephen Hunt is a successful theatrical manager. Rowley finishes a brilliant play and sends it to Hunt for production. Recognizing it as a masterpiece, Hunt puts his own name on the play and produces it, achieving fame as a playwright. Upon discovery of the theft the shock is too much for Rowley’s wife, who dies. Rowley, devastated, loses his sanity and disappears. Hunt decides to adopt Rowley's orphaned son and raises him as his own. Years later, Rowley, wandering aimlessly, sees a poster advertising his play with his own name on it. This sight brings him back to his senses. Rowley and Hunt are reconciled, and Rowley finally receives public recognition and enjoys his success as the true author of the play.
Julius Steger
Edwin Rowley
Harry Burkhardt
Stephen Hunt
Clara Whipple
Mrs. Hunt
Clara Blandick
Mrs. Rowley
Edgar Kennedy
Edwin Rowley, Jr.
Helen Badgley
Little Alice
Marie Reichardt
Mrs. Williams
Raye Dean
Alice Hunt
Maurice Steuart
Little Edwin
Kathleen Townsend
