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When George Cabot, Sr., owner of Cabot's Fifth Avenue
department store, learns that his son, George, Jr., has eloped with cabaret
performer Marcelle La Verne, and that Marcelle's lawyer wants a cash
settlement to end the marriage, he threatens to have bodyguards take his son
to his Oklahoma ranch. George escapes down the department store's fire
escape, and sees through a window Kristina Nielson, an employee, ice skating
on the store's rink.
After George slips on the ice, Kristina helps him to his
apartment, where Marcelle sees them and endeavors to get Kristina's name as
a co-respondent. A fortuneteller then suggests that George get
Kristina to leave New York, and he convinces his father and the board of
directors to send Kristina to Plymouth University as a student with a
multitude of winter outfits to encourage the girls to shop at Cabot's.
Kristina agrees but, at the college, she makes an enemy of Dorothy, one of
her roommates, because of the interest Kristina shows in Larry Taylor,
Dorothy's beau. Dorothy then borrows Kristina's clothes and has the
boys wear them during a tryout for the winter ice carnival, during which
they sing an insulting song about Kristina.
After Larry convinces Kristina not to leave, she ice skates
and wins the students' respect and affection. Her talent is the
subject of a Life magazine cover story, which Marcelle sees.
After Marcelle names Kristina in the divorce suit, the college dean suspends
her.
Larry and Kristina find Marcelle in New York and,
sympathizing with Kristina, whom she is convinced is innocent, Marcelle says
that if George will pay her $50,000 in cash, she will tell the newspapers
that Kristina is innocent. George cannot pay but, when Larry suggests
that he combine the ice carnival with a fashion show at the department
store, George, whose father is in Havana, arranges it. The carnival is
a great success, Cabot, Sr. returns and gives his son a bonus to pay
Marcelle, and Kristina returns with Larry to Plymouth University. |
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