Prof. Jaquin Delano joins a circus to study practical zoology. Old man Cummings is the guardian of Anita, a beautiful girl. Cummings rages because the circus tents are pitched too near his palatial home. Anita visits the menagerie tent, sees Jaquin and is impressed with his kind treatment of the wild beasts.
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Lafe McKee as Old Man Cummings
Elsie Greeson as Anita
Franklyn Hall as Prof. Jaquin Delano
Charles Murphy as Capt. Carlos Bernardo
United States 06 March 1915
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