A Chicago gangster steals jewels and frames his band leader double.

A diplomat is blackmailed by crooked vice cops into helping them frame prostitutes.

A successful songwriter, dazzled by high society, falls for a society girl who is just playing around.

Joe and Casey trouble-shoot for the phone company. They try to prove that Joes's girl Ethel's boss Dan is a crook but are trapped by criminals and left in a burning building.

Two sisters from Indiana, the wide-eyed and innocent Mae Thorpe, and her more streetwise sister June, move into the Rolf House for Homeless Girls in New York. With June's help, Mae obtains a job as a stenographer for the scientist Joseph von Schraeder, while June gets work as a telegraph operator at Western Union.