Story of a rising stage star and the trouble she causes by her ambition.

Eve Appleton, wife of small-town garage owner Bill Appleton, has theatrical ambitions. Bill gets into an argument with a visiting actor over her, kills him accidentally and is sent to prison. Eve, realizing her part in Bill's fate, vows to right matters, and taking her infant daughter, goes away to make her way in the theatre. Later, she is forced to leave her baby girl with her friend "Tim" Adams. Bert Ballin befriends her and they fall in love, but she flees abroad and becomes a star. Back in America, as the Toast of Broadway, she is brought back to a realization of her former vows by Joe Grant, her hometown lawyer. Oh, back-of-hand-to-forehead suffering gesture, what is a girl to do?—Les Adams <[email protected]>

Wife to garage owner Bill Appleton and mother to infant Jackie Appleton, Eve Appleton operates an unprofitable newsstand at the train station in small town Burnsdale solely to have access to the entertainment trade magazines in she having the bright lights of Broadway in her eyes, she regarded as the star performer in her community theater group. While her disapproving mother-in-law who lives with them has told her continually, Eve eventually realizes what a neglectful wife and mother she truly has been when Bill is convicted of murder, she the reason for the incident that led to the death and the fact that they didn't have the money to mount a strong legal defense the sole reason for his conviction in a situation that was not murder against the high profile victim. As such, she vows to Bill that she will atone for her ways by working solely toward freeing him legally from prison by forwarding most of what she earns toward retaining Bill's loyal lawyer, Joe Grant. Over the subsequent immediate years, the questions become not only if Eve can raise the money, but if she can stay true to her word: as she decides to leave Jackie with a friend, Tim Adams, leaving her one less responsibility; as true stardom on the stage seems like it is within her grasp; and as she ends up truly falling in love, with Broadway producer Bert Ballin, something she can admit to herself that she probably never really felt for Bill.—Huggo