Bright Lights (1916)

The manager of a small town hotel installs a cabaret in an attempt to achieve the standard set by restaurants in the large cities His effort is ludicrous because of the fact that his talent is all recruited from the help in the hotel Roscoe the cook is forced to appear in a dress suit and when Al St John appears from the bar there is a lively rivalry between the two for the applause of the crowd Mabel the waitress vies with a professional dancer from the city Into this setting comes William Jefferson a polished sharper who takes the innocent Mabel by storm