A poor New York plumber's wife and children hope to move "uptown" from their lower East Side neighborhood after he sells his new invention.
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Joe Smith
Bernard Schnaps
Charles Dale
Sam Shtrudel
George Sidney
Mendel Marantz
Ruth Hall
Lillian Marantz
Aline MacMahon
Bessie
Anna Appel
Zelde Marantz
Donald Cook
Milton
Oscar Apfel
Otto
Harold Waldridge
Jakie
Marion Byron
Mimi
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