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The Barnstormer Synopsis

Joel, a young fellow who's never been to the city, is delighted when a traveling theatre troupe comes to town. So taken is he with the performers that he takes a job as a stagehand in hopes of getting to be an actor. But a robbery during a performance provides Joel with an unexpected challenge.

An Amateur Devil Synopsis

Carver Endicott, a young sophisticate, is rejected by his fiancée for being too foppish and dull. When she feigns an interest in his father, Carver attempts to disgrace his family name by working as a farmhand and later as a busboy in a hotel. However, the newspapers only praise him for his self-sacrificing principles; and finding that he cannot bring shame to the family through menial labor, he takes up with a notorious actress. But when this maneuver also fails, he returns to his former fiancée, who has no further complaint about his being an inexperienced dullard.