Ford Sterling

After losing his life's work and his wife, a man joins the circus as a clown whose gag is that he is humiliatingly slapped in the face by others.

A young orphaned waitress with dreams of becoming a dancer finds love, fame, and the Broadway spotlight after impersonating a Russian performer.

A traveling Tom show is stranded in Kansas when the manager flees with the loot and an actress marries a local undertaker to keep the troupe afloat.