22 November 1912 Comedy 20 mins
Mike Rosenberg, a ne'er-do-well, is broke, but still is undenied the pleasure of imagination. A circus comes to town, and he is without the price of admission. He retires disgusted to the solitude of the bar, where he dreams that he possesses unlimited wealth. His first investment is a pet elephant that leads him into a vast variety of expensive difficulties.
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Tom Santschi as Mike Rosenberg
Toodles as Toodles - an Elephant
Otto Breitkreutz as Jasper Washington Jones (as Big Otto Breitkreutz)
Frank Clark as The Cobbler (as Frank M. Clark)
United States 22 November 1912
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