On the day before Easter in 1911, Don Hewes is crushed when his dancing partner (and object of affection) Nadine Hale refuses to start a new contract with him. To prove Nadine's not important to him, Don acquires innocent new protege Hannah Brown, vowing to make her a star in time for next year's Easter parade.
Lovely Linda Mason has crooner Jim Hardy head over heels, but suave stepper Ted Hanover wants her for his new dance partner after fickle Lila Dixon gives him the brush. Jim's supper club, Holiday Inn, is the setting for the chase by Hanover and his manager.
Josh and Dinah Barkley are a successful musical-comedy team, known for their stormy but passionate relationship. Dinah feels overshadowed by Josh and limited by the lighthearted musical roles he directs her in. So she decides to stretch her skills by taking a role in a serious drama, directed by another man.
Vernon Castle, que es guanya la vida com a actor còmic de segona fila, coneix en una platja Irene, que hi veu grans aptituds com a ballarí. Tots dos s'enamoren i poc després es casen. Irene convenç Vernon per formar junts una parella de ball. Un malentès els porta a París, on en realitat només l'estimaven per interpretar un grotesc número còmic de vodevil. La sort, però, els somriu immediatament: una empresària hi posa els ulls i els fa debutar al Cafè de París. Vernon i Irene triomfen amb magnificència en el món de la moda. Però esclata la guerra i Vernon sent la necessitat d'allistar-se.
Quan la flota atraca al port de San Francisco, Bake Baker només pensa a recuperar la seva antiga núvia i parella de ball, Sherry Martin. Mentrestant, el seu amic Bilge Smith mantindrà un idil·li amb Connie, la germana de Sherrie. Però les coses no discorreran plàcidament: Bake té el costum de fer perdre els seus treballs a Sherrie, i Bilge no sembla preparat per seure el cap.
'Popito' and 'Olivita' are a dance team, performing at Wimpy's Cafe. Bluto is jealous, and heckles and otherwise disrupts the act.
In this Pete Smith Specialties short, two professional dancers beautifully demonstrate the rumba and conga while actors humorously display some incorrect techniques for those dances.
The plot is a loose autobiographical interpretation of the life of Vernon and Irene Castle, interspersed among a typical melodrama of the period