The Healers

Gertie and Moxie lose their jobs in a third-rate vaudeville show. They take to street faking in their extremity, and are driven out of town when a rube becomes wise to his shell game. Moxie and Gertie trudge along. Weary and disheartened they reach the environs of a village, where they stop to rest. In the village lives little Violet, a cripple, who, arousing the sympathy of Moxie and Gertie, is cured by Moxie, who, an acrobat, is expert in muscular manipulation. The townspeople acclaim the child's recovery a miracle, which belief Moxie and Gertie immediately commercialize by opening a resort and hold manifestation meetings as they, in a trance, commune with divine powers. To treat the town's banker of dyspepsia, they dose him with the "Crystal elixir of life" which they secure at a mineral spring. Then a "miracle" does happen. The banker gets well and believing that Moxie and Gertie have some patent prescription to concoct the elixir he has it analyzed. The chemist tells him it is natural mineral water and the spring from which it comes is of value. Moxie and Gertie know nothing of this, nor of the cures they are making. They think it is time to move on. The play ends with the capture of the astonished runaways by the happy and well country people led by the banker. The elixir brings prosperity to the village and peace and contentment to the wandering Moxie and Gertie. - IMDb