A gossip columnist's rise to fame. Based closely on the real life of Walter Winchell.

Willie, as an assistant window-dresser, is the lowest man on the totem pole at a department store. To add insult-to-injury Willie is also the store's designated 'Fired Man."; when a disgruntled customer demands that somebody-must-be-fired, Willie is summoned and summarily fired, only to be rehired when the now-satisfied customer has departed. Willie inadvertently adopts a four-year-old orphan at a cost of ten-dollars a week, and things go from bad to worse since Willie doesn't make ten-dollars a week. But, with the help of Mary, a beautiful young nurse, Willie manages to turn some corners and improve his lot in life, albeit with some skids along the way.

A poor clerk pretends that he has lots of money.

Billy needs to buy a git for his girlfriend but he can't what to buy.

A woman tries to save her husband from the electric chair after both are sent to prison for a murder they didn't commit.

A woman becomes estranged from her daughter when the girl learns that she is illegitimate.