Buck Parvin gets his friend, Tommy Dennis, a job as a extra man, and Tommy's troubles commence with little loss of time. Promptly he falls in love with Myrtle Manners, charming leading lady, and dreams about her, sleeping and waking, until he simply "can't tend to business". Buck, seeing how the land lies, tips Tommy to the fact that there will be no extra man in Myrtle's pictures while LaRue plays her lead, but Tommy just won't believe him. Tommy leaves a bouquet at Miss Manners' door, but Buck happening along grabs the credit for it, of course. Thus, through several pictures, Tommy adores Myrtle from afar, and then, one wonderful day, he gets her a sandwich and is rewarded with a smile. Hope then springs up anew in his heart. Monty gets orders from Seligman to "cut out the jungle stuff, but to get some sort of a scenario, using all the animals." Monty is in a quandary, but LaRue helps out with the suggestion that "you never see animals anywhere except in a circus" and so circus stuff goes. Monty bargains with a visiting circus to take the scenes. One of the scenes is to be a thriller, where LaRue rescues Myrtle from the lion's cage, but, even though it is a milk-fed lion, LaRue refused to take any chances with his precious hide. After the first scene they are "stumped". Miss Manners sees her opportunity to register big, and is willing to take the chance, but she is just a little bit nervous. Lovesick Tommy, not far off, ever watchful, tries to reassure her. However, he is terribly anxious, and when the lion growls, and Myrtle becomes over alarmed, he madly breaks through and rushes to her release. Of course, the scene is "crabbed", and Myrtle, far from appreciating his heroism, tells him what she thinks of him, in no uncertain terms. Poor boy, he tastes the cup of biiterness to the full - for Monty not only curses him roundly, but hands him his walking papers. - Moving Picture World, February 5, 1916
Motion Picture Magazine published this story in the April, 1916 edition.