The Tomboy

Miss Devore plays Tommy, a young woman who runs a boarding house for her father, an inventor of eccentric devices, and the boarders are the usual collection of neurotics in such an effort.

Cast

Herbert Rawlinson

as Aldon Farwell

Dorothy Devore

as Tommy Smith

James O. Barrows

as Henry Smith

Lee Moran

as Hiram - the Sheriff

Helen Lynch

as Sweetie Higgins

Lottie Williams

as Mrs. Higgins

Harry Gribbon

as Rugby Blood

Virginia True Boardman

as Mrs. Smith

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