A film crew goes to a natural location to film American life melodrama. Local bell ringer interferes with the filming. But the director finds him filmable and decides to use him as an actor. The bell ringer is taught how to act. When the scene is finally filmed he unknowingly spoils the film by exposing it to light.
A rich girl is disowned by her father when she decides she wants a career in show business. After sinking her money in a stage production which immediately flops, she's forced to try and earn a living dancing in a saloon in her underwear, and forced into prostitution in a slum apartment.