She pauses in front of an office building where Warren Attinger (Tom Ewell) emerges in the midst of rushing office-workers leaving for home.He exclaims, with outstretched arms: "I""ve found it! I""ve found it! A Mountain of Gold." Perilously lost, and facing a blizzard storm, the Tramp blindly seeks shelter.At the same time, Big Jim""s tent is blown away in the storm.The Tramp arrives at the lone cabin of fearsome rapper Black Larsen (Tom Murray), a violent and "wanted" man.Dobbs: I think I""ll go to sleep and dream about piles of gold gettin"" bigger and bigger and bigger...The next afternoon on the Plaza bench while they lounge about, Curtin and Dobbs contemplate Howard""s warnings of what lusting for gold can do to a man""s soul.The pleasant young man spends his time carving wooden napkin rings as a hobby to calm his nerves: "You""d be surprised at the genuine rage you can work off just by carvin"" a little piece of wood like that.In the early days of cinema, live mini-musical ""prologues"" were often presented on stage in the larger movie houses (a carry-over from vaudeville days) - full-scale productions with costumes and scenery and thematic content related to the feature film.