
Betty is the maid for a farmer's family but she longs for the life of an actress. She has an ardent lover in the person of John the hired man, but while really fond of him, her histrionic aspirations prevent her from fully reciprocating his affections. The Indian-Cure-All-Medicine Company visits the nearest town and John and Betty drive over and attend a performance. During the "entertainment" the manager of the show while going his rounds selling his medicine, sees Betty and... (Full plot summary below)
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Betty is the maid for a farmer's family but she longs for the life of an actress. She has an ardent lover in the person of John the hired man, but while really fond of him, her histrionic aspirations prevent her from fully reciprocating his affections. The Indian-Cure-All-Medicine Company visits the nearest town and John and Betty drive over and attend a performance. During the "entertainment" the manager of the show while going his rounds selling his medicine, sees Betty and John and taken by her pretty face, he gives her a bottle. Betty is strongly impressed by the striking personality of this "great" man and returns home filled with a strange wonder at her good fortune. She tries to induce the family to take some of the "cure-all," but as they one and all refuse, she takes several large doses herself. Then sitting down to peel potatoes for the evening meal she falls asleep and dreams. All of the tales of romance, adventure and bloodshed she had ever read went flying through her brain and she lived the most exciting, dramatic and weird life an actress ever experienced, finishing up by seeing her faithful John hanging from a railroad bridge with a train rushing over his head at the same moment that she herself is driven to a watery grave by her fiendish pursuers. She awakens to find John splashing water in her face from a bucket of fresh well water. When she realizes that it has all been a horrible dream, she loses no time in convincing John of her unconditional love for him and her complete hatred for all things theatrical.
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