John Strongheart, an actor of the old school, finds himself after a very bad season without enough funds to get through the summer. He places an ad in one of the leading papers for actors of both sexes to form a stock company. He receives many responses and organizes a troupe. He puts up a call for their first stand and after much "flim-flamming" for expense money, lands in the little town of Hipswitch. The hour of the show arrives and the performance begins but it is so bad, that the audience, a boy and dog, becomes so weary they leave after the first act. Strongheart and his troupe return to the hotel to dress. The hotel proprietor tells them they must pay up or lose the trunk and leave the hotel. Having no money the players are forced to walk the streets in their stage clothes. They are seen by the boy, dog and villagers and are stoned out of town by the freight car route. After many bumps along the railroad the boxcar comes to a standstill, only to find themselves in the very same town and are treated to a second battery of stones, ripe tomatoes and unsalable eggs.
