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"Granddaddy - why didn't
you come to me? Omar had the most dreadful
fits, and when you didn't come to me - I had hysterics!" |
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Amy's grandfather, Alexander
Guthrie, wants her to take a trip to England with him. Her father
arrives, and she wants to go live with him while he writes his
book in the slums. Guthrie asks Amy's father, "Have you
influenced Amy against me?" |
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After the initial shock of
relocating from a life of luxury to a life in the slums, Amy
takes her father's advice to act and dress like the people there
if she wants to get along with them. Shooting craps with some
of the young boys in the neighborhood is one way she fits in. |
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In the alley between the
two apartment buildings, the locals entertain themselves taking
turns dancing to the organ grinder's music. Amy and Dish improvise
a dance that brings the applause of everyone there. |
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When Amy learns of a family
living in squalor with no money, the mother sick, and children
hungry, she goes to Peter Cooper, for help. Cooper is a mysterious
man who moved into the neighborhood recently and obviously has
money. What Amy doesn't know is that Peter Cooper is really her
grandfather, Alexander Guthrie, in disguise. He has come to the
neighborhood to see first-hand how Amy's new surroundings are
affecting her, and he's not pleased. |
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Amy is determined to bring
the feuding Jewish Abram Isaacs and Irishman Pat O'Shaughnessy
together and finally, through trickery, succeeds. |
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Mary is enamored with William
Turner. Turner apparently has a secret. He writes about his unjust
imprisonment in the penitentiary and how he plans to prove his
innocence. He hides his notes in a secret compartment in is artist's
table. |
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Amy: "I saw a sneak
thief in your apartment."
Turner: "Not a thief, but
an agent of Alexander Guthrie."
|
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Amy and Turner are caught
breaking into her grandfather's house. |
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. . . and they lived happily ever
after! |
