A naive youngster is sold a phony mine.

Extremely condensed version of the Mark Twain story of a royal heir and his poor doppelganger trading places.

One of the first, of not the first, film adaptation of Grimm's fairytale.

The secretary of the young king of Bavarre sees and is impressed with a little girl. He watches her dancing in the street. When her father dies, the secretary takes the little dancer under his care and in time she becomes the premiere danseuse of the capital. The young king sees her and becomes infatuated. To win her, he showers attention and riches and in turn she pleads for the poor of the nation. The king grants her request, thereby incurring the enmity of the nobility, who lay all the blame for his acts at the little dancer's door.