- Nellie is a struggling artist whose paintings lie unsold. Billy, a successful painter, loves her, but she tells him that she cannot marry until she sells her paintings. Billy recruits his friends to buy her paintings. At first she is excited by the sudden success, but when she learns the truth, Nellie leaves her sweetheart to accept the proposal of a rival painter.—Anonymous
- Nellie is an artist struggling for fame, at the expense of a vacancy in the digestive region. It cannot be said that she was not possessed of a sensitive pneumo-gastric nerve, but she had a will power that proved an anesthetic to the pangs of hunger. Painting after painting does she finish and carry to the art dealer, but he gently tries to dissuade her by showing a stack of her work with still no purchasers. Still she persists. Now Billy Hart, a successful artist, sees her plight, and being desperately in love with her, proposes marriage, as does also Hans Kessler, another artist. Nellie, however, is wedded to art, and declines Billy's offer, stating that she will not consider his very flattering offer until she has sold pictures enough to establish her fame. An idea strikes Billy. He will make her famous by the following scheme: He enlists the services of several friends, his housekeeper and valet, giving them money to buy up the stock of Nellie's paintings at the art dealer, and when the dealer turns over to Nell her share, she feels that she is at last great, so goes to Billy's studio to tell him of her good fortune, and inclined to accept his proposal. All would have gone well for Billy had not the awkwardness of his valet exposed to view the pile of paintings. Nell realizes the deception perpetrated, and flies into a rage. Leaving the place with the exclamation, "You'll not make a fool of me!" she goes to her own atelier, where she accepts Kessler, who calls shortly after.—Moving Picture World synopsis
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