Charming con man The Great McGonigle leads his cash-strapped traveling theater troupe from town to town, always one step ahead of sheriffs and unpaid bills. While his daughter Betty explores a budding romance, McGonigle casts the wealthy Cleopatra Pepperday in his production, hoping to loosen her purse strings, and stages a riotous performance of the melodrama The Drunkard. © 1934 Universal Studios. All Rights Reserved.