Experience

And Youth takes his fling! Drinks all the joy of life and finds- the dregs! Then stumbles, falls, sinks so deep that only Love can find him.

Youth meets Ambition and leaves Love, his mother, and his small-town roots for the big city. There, in his search for Experience, he meets Pleasure and hangs out at the Primrose Path with the likes of Temptation and Intoxication. Back home, Youth's mother dies, and Love tries unsuccessfully to reach him. When Youth's money runs out his newfound friends all leave him and he sinks into a life of drug addiction, aided by Habit.

Richard Barthelmess

Youth

Reginald Denny

John Miltern

Experience

Marjorie Daw

Love

E.J. Ratcliffe

Ambition

Betty Carpenter

Hope

Kate Bruce

Mother

Lilyan Tashman

Pleasure

R. Senoir

Opportunity

Joseph W. Smiley

Chance

Fred Hadley

Tout

Harry J. Lane

Despair

Helen Ray

Intoxication

Jed Prouty

Good Nature

Barney Furey

Poverty

Charles A. Stevenson

Wealth

Edna Wheaton

Beauty