Ann is one tough cowgirl. After she beats up Hank, her parents send her East to college, hoping she'll come back a lady.
John Howard Payne leaves home and begins a career in the theater. Despite encouragement from his mother and his sweetheart, Payne begins to lead a life of dissolute habits, and this soon leads to ruin and misery. In deep despair, he thinks of better days, and writes a song that later provides inspiration to several others in their own times of need.
Eleventh episode, third series, of The Gumps 2-reel series.
