Musician Max Tooney goes to sell his prized Conn trumpet to a music shop, where he plays the instrument one last time. The shopkeeper recognises the song as one on a record matrix he found and asks who the piece is by. Tooney tells the story of an infant found abandoned in the first class dining room of the four-stacker ocean-liner SS Virginian on 1 January 1900. Danny Boodman, a coal-man from the boiler room, names the boy Danny Boodman T. D. Lemon 1900, after himself, the fruit crate the boy was found in, and the year, and raises him as his own.
as Danny Boodmann T.D. Lemon Nineteen Hundred '1900'
as Max Tooney
as The Girl
as Danny Boodmann
as Farmer
as Jelly Roll Morton
as 'Pops', the Shopkeeper
as Harbor Master
as Mexican Stoker
as Neapolitan Stoker
as Black Stoker
as Chinese Stoker
as Irish Stoker
as Polish Stoker
as Boatswain
as Drummer
as Impresario
as Doctor Klauserman
