Carnival (1935)

Chick Thompson is a puppetmaster in a traveling carnival whose wife dies in childbirth and leaves him with an infant son he names Poochy His fatherinlaw and the babys grandfather sues him for custody of the baby and Chick takes his son and hides out for a couple of years He joins his former assistants Daisy and Fingers in a circus act only to find that the persistent grandfather is still on his trail