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We are shown first the interior of Uncle Levi's establishment, typical of any East Side or Halsted Street pawnshop. Uncle Levi is much perturbed, first because Mose, his clerk, and Rebecca,... See full summary

We are shown first the interior of Uncle Levi's establishment, typical of any East Side or Halsted Street pawnshop. Uncle Levi is much perturbed, first because Mose, his clerk, and Rebecca, his daughter, have permitted themselves to fall in love without his consent, and second, because burglars have been busy in the Ghetto, as the startling headlines of the morning's paper point out. The pleadings of Rebecca and Mose asking for consent to marry, fall on deaf ears, but they are so persistent and Mose has become so neglectful of his business that Uncle Levi has found it more profitable to answer doubtfully, but with some hope, "Maybe, some time." Business immediately picks up. A chap enters to purchase an overcoat, tries on several, but is not pleased until the resort to the old trick. An empty pocketbook is placed in the pocket of a coat, which is slipped on the customer. The latter goes into the pockets and discovers the pocketbook and unhesitatingly purchases the coat, unaware, of ...