Charles Prince is a gypsy street violinist, whose appreciative audience disappears as soon as he stops playing and passes the hat. He returns home to Gabrielle Lange with empty pockets to a dinner of stale bread and fetid tap water. But an engagement at a celebration offers hope of better times to come.
Prince's Rigadin character moves into fuller, and more sympathetic territory with his comic portrayal of a Gypsy. A decade earlier, their principal use in movies was to kidnap babies, so this change in attitude is an interesting difference. Prince also gives and gets a goodly amount of physical abuse here.