A Sporting Chance

William Russell plays John Stonehouse, who checks into a hotel intending to commit suicide but ends up assisting Gilberte Bonheur (Fritzi Brunette) when he finds her bending over a man she appears to have killed. Since he planned to die anyway, he offers to assume the blame. A valuable emerald and the dead man's sudden return to life thoroughly befuddle Stonehouse and the audience, until Gilberte gives him a theater ticket and reveals that everything was the plot of a stage play enacted in real life by the actors. The critics had roasted the play as unrealistic, and this was their proof that such situations could happen. Gilberte retires from acting when Stonehouse proposes.