It's 1922, and the good old days of burlesque. In a second-rate theater in Kansas City, The Bells of Gay Paris is still going strong in its second month. On the marquee in big lights are the names 'Skid' Johnson and Bonny Kane, a couple who are about to run into a whole heap of marital strife when 'Skid' gets a shot on Broadway, while she gets left behind on the road...