A cash-strapped theater producer promotes a nine-year-old boy's dancing caterpillar.

Smalltime crookster and showman Jerry Flynn is desperately searching for a new act to promote in order to save him from ruin. He meets a boy on the street who claims to have a dancing caterpillar called Curly. Flynn seizes the opportunity for fame and fortune at Curly's expense.—Col Needham <[email protected]>