The production is postponed and the parents are out looking for work when a prospective tenant appear . Mrs. O 'Brien show him the room and he is interested , but do not know what to do with the children . Mrs. O 'Brien put the children out onto the street where they dance to the music played by an organ grinder . The organ grinder earn more money from their dancing and he entice the children to return to his hovel and teach them to dance . The organ grinder instruct them to dance for money . The children are rescued by a theater manager and find them a place in the theater program .