Summary
A champagne-saturated soirée on Fifth Avenue—crystal chandeliers dripping like frozen waterfalls—spills its gilded guests into a scavenger hunt of stolen sapphires and counterfeit identities. Millionaire Gerry Simpson, bespoke tuxedo clinging to him like gossip, masquerades as a lowly copy boy to beguile Virginia Blake, the ink-stained columnist who loathes everything his silk pockets represent. Between foxtrots and gossip columns, a prowler slithers through marble corridors, relieving hostess Alice Woolworth of her parure; only a brass button, snatched by a mischievous capuchin, remains as breadcrumb. Virginia pockets the bauble, vows to unmask the culprit, and unknowingly fingers her own heart when the missing button on Gerry’s chesterfield seems to indict him. The film pirouettes from Park-Avenue penthouse to cramped newsroom, from flirtatious deception to bruised revelation, until a valet’s greed unravels the knot and the millionaire purchases both a newspaper and absolution.
Synopsis
At a high society musicale, millionaire Gerry Simpson meets and falls in love with newspaper reporter Virginia Blake, whose disdain for the "idle rich" causes him to claim that he is a cub reporter on her paper. When the party is interrupted by the announcement that a burglar has stolen hostess Alice Woolworth's jewels, Virginia secures the button torn from the robber's coat by Mrs. Wentworth's pet monkey and is determined to solve the crime. Virginia begins to fall in love with Gerry, who has actually taken a job with the paper, but one day she notices that his coat is missing a button identical to the one that she obtained at the party. Believing him to be the thief, she searches his apartment and locates a cache of jewels. At that moment, however, Gerry's valet Rogers enters, and suspecting that she has discovered his guilt, he attacks her. After Gerry rescues Virginia, Rogers is imprisoned, and Gerry wins his girl's heart by promising to work hard as the editor of the newspaper he has just bought.
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