Eleven years after women obtained suffrage and a few weeks after Marlene Dietrich donned her top hat to wow the schoolboys at "The Blue Angel" and take charge of Emil Jannings, top-hatted Kay Francis was introduced as a great huntress, a Russian countess of course, into polite English society, strutting about, puffing on a cigarette and trifling with the help. Into this genteel milieu arrives lovely, young Billie Dove, an impoverished, sensitive Italian violinist in tow (Basil Rathbone). Thus, she incurs the disfavor of her dignified father (Montagu Love) and shocks his guests, as she reveals that the high-strung Italian is, in fact, her new husband. All this despite Kenneth Thomson, a fine young Englishman, who loves her from afar. And so the stage is set for a brisk template for the soap opera art form.