The Studio Girl

The mad exploit of a daring young country girl who falls in love with an artist and hides in his automobile to escape marriage with a country youth she does not love. Weary of the straitlaced surroundings of her New England coastal village, Celia Laird is thrilled when dashing New York City artist Frazer Ordway vacations in Cliff Haven for his health. Celia's frequent meetings with Frazer prompt her two maiden aunts, Harriet and Rachel Farnum, to arrange a marriage with Obediah Daw, a wealthy though foppish man whom the aunts consider an ideal match for their niece. Realizing that the pretty and high-spirited girl is distracting him from thoughts of his fiancée, Adriana Peroni, Frazer decides to return to New York City. Halfway there, he finds Celia hiding in the back seat of his car and promptly puts her on a train for home. However, Celia is determined to escape a union with Obediah and secretly boards a train to the city instead. Frazer later enters his home to find Celia in his easy chair. When Adriana learns of Celia's presence, she ends the engagement, ultimately finding happiness with Dr. Walter Grierson. Celia's aunts arrive with police to arrest Frazer for kidnapping, then discover that the happy couple is about to depart on their honeymoon. Celia Laird, living in a small New England village, is doomed by her aunts to marry Obediah Daw, the village lout, because marriage is the expected thing. When Celia becomes interested in a visiting artist, they hurriedly advance the wedding date, but while Obediah is waiting at the church Celia is nestling in the tonneau of the departing artist's car. When he discovers her he starts her home, but she is waiting for him when he arrives at the studio and his jealous fiancée advises the village authorities who come to arrest him for an abduction of which he is more than innocent, but Celia finds the way out for all. —Moving Picture World synopsis