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Mrs. Penfield, better known as Penzie, is one of the inhabitants of a tenement neighborhood known as "the Custard Cup" because of its oval shape. Penzie is a widow who lost both her husband and son in the influenza epidemic of 1918 and 1919. She has found fulfillment by taking in three orphans. One of the Custard Cup's other residents is a counterfeiter, and when the police are too hot on his trail, he leaves a package with Penzie and sets a boat aflame when he tries to destroy some phony bills. When the gang is rounded up, Penzie -- who has been looking for one of her adopted children -- is found at the hideout and arrested.
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Mary Carr
Mrs. Penfield
Myrta Bonillas
Gussie Bosley
Miriam Battista
Lettie
Jerry Devine
Crink
Ernest McKay
Thad
Peggy Shaw
Lorene Percy
Lisle Leigh
Mrs. Percy
Fred Esmelton
Jeremiah Winston
Henry Sedley
Frank Bosley
Louis Hendricks
Alderman Curry
Edward Boring
Mr. Wopple
Emily Lorraine
Perennial Prue
Ben Lyon
Dick Chase
Richard Collins
Counterfeiter
Nick Hollen
Detective
