Although Bobby Kingston is an honest and effective mayor of a large city, he has offended the city's reformers, who criticize his lively nightlife activities. Kingston, a dandy and a ladies' man, often mixes business with pleasure and would rather catch a new musical show than grapple with the city's budget problems. While a reform committee petitions Lieutenant-Governor Robertson to have the mayor removed from office, Kingston meets a new girl, follies dancer Doree Dawn. When Kingston throws a party at his elegant apartment, Doree arrives with reporter Fred Fields from the Evening Star , a newspaper that does not favor the mayor, so Kingston concocts a fake news story to get rid of Fields. After failing to get Doree to go with him, Fields leaves Kingston's party in anger. Smitten with the young dancer, Kingston ignores the reformers' complaints and takes Doree to parties, fights and night clubs. When Fields, who is in love with Doree and is determined to get her back, goes to Kingston's apartment and threatens to expose their affair in his paper unless he gives her up, Kingston's tough butler and bodyguard, Riley, decides to help his boss by shooting Fields before he gets back to his office. Kingston, however, saves the reporter by having him arrested on phony charges. Meanwhile, Hymie Shane, Kingston's political mentor, having received an ultimatum from Robertson, decides to end the scandal by marrying Doree and Fields. Doree agrees to the plan but objects to telling Kingston that she does not love him, because she does. She is soon convinced, though, that she must make the sacrifice in order to save the mayor's political career. Kingston performs the marriage ceremony himself and although he is sad to have lost his first true love, he knows that his political future is secure.
