The stooges are stage hands who also have small parts in a big play. They quickly get on the bad side of the producer. First they fail to prevent a famous critic from sneaking into the audience. Then Shemp accidentally adds a pot holder into a cake they bake as a prop. During the play the stooges (as southern gentlemen) and the rest of the cast spit up feathers during what was supposed to be a serious scene. The critic thinks it’s a hilarious satire and the boys are redeemed.

Soames and Irene Forsyte have a marriage of convenience. The Forsytes and the people and society around them is the basis for this love story set in the rigid and strict times of the Victorian age.

When Viv's nervous cousin can't perform in his debut with the Manhattan Symphony, Lucy takes his place.