Gretchen the Greenhorn

Gretchen Van Houck is just arriving in the USA, on a ship from Holland. She joins her father, who has already spent several years in America, where he owns an engraving business. In the tenement community where the Van Houcks live, there are residents of many nationalities. Gretchen soon becomes close friends with Pietro, a popular resident, and she also takes an interest in the widow Garrity and her children. Another resident, Rogers, is more mysterious. One day Rogers tells Mr. Van Houck that he could help him get a job printing money for the government. Van Houck eagerly agrees to try, but when he finds out what Rogers is really doing, he is placed in a painful dilemma.

• Chester M. FranklinDirector
• Sidney FranklinDirector
• Bernard McConvilleWriter

• Dorothy GishGretchen Van Houck
• Ralph LewisJan Van Houck
• Eugene PalletteRodgers
• Elmo LincolnMystery Ship Captain
• Frank BennettPietro
• Georgie StoneLittle Nicky Garrity
• Kate BruceWidow Garrity
• Beulah BurnsA Garrity Kid
• Francis CarpenterA Garrity Kid
• 'Baby' Carmen De RueA Garrity Kid
• Violet RadcliffeA Garrity Kid
• Tom SpencerA Garrity Kid