 Andy Clark discovers he was cheated out of a half interest in partner Mike s business, now a thriving dance hall in 1892 Chicago. Unable to win it back, Andy schemes to make Mike s position untenable. He also hopes to turn Ruby Summers, Mike s motor-mouthed burlesque queen, into a classier entertainer, and incidentally to make her his own. But at the last minute, Andy s revenge comes unravelled.