Nellie Wayne loses her husband, Pendleton, to Jill Wetherell by neglecting him and her appearance to pursue her literary ambitions.  Nellie goes to Europe, where she becomes fashionable and a famous novelist under the name of Mrs. Paramor.  She encounters Jill with Perley Rex, whom the vamp has married after jilting Pendleton.  Intending to teach Jill a lesson, Nellie applies her charms to Perley until he offers to divorce Jill, but Nellie refuses and sends for Pendleton, whom she still loves.

Later, at a banquet and mahjong party, Mrs. Paramor entertains several MGM stars who are to work in the film version of one of her novels.