- When Prohibition ends, the mobsters move into the "protection" racket; those who do not pay are knocked off. Small-town reporter Ruth wants a job at the big-city paper, but the editor will not hire her, so she looks for a story and sees the murder of Liquor Board Commissioner Eldridge. After she gets the job, she gets the picture of the killer who knocks off Murty, the driver who knocked over Eldridge. Ruth is in the thick of the investigation and one step ahead of Casey.—Tony Fontana <tony.fontana@spacebbs.com>
- Following a series of robberies and murders perpetrated by the Tim Gleason gang, Eldridge, the head of the liquor-control board, announces that he has information that will finally bring the gang to justice. Meanwhile, Matt Casey, a reporter for The Star tells his editor, Bill Blaine, that he has the same inside information as Eldridge. While they are talking, small-town girl Ruth Nolan interrupts them and asks for a job, but Bill doesn't take women reporters seriously and turns her down. Ruth determines to get an exclusive with Eldridge, and follows him, but instead of an interview, she witnesses his murder when his car is pushed off a wharf by a truck. Bill gives Ruth a job after her scoop, but Matt still thinks that women shouldn't be reporters, and refuses to work with her. He then traces the truck used in the murder and helps the police arrest the driver, Murty. When Bill sends Ruth and Matt to the police station to interview Murty, Matt makes her stay in the car in the alley. While she passes the time taking pictures, she accidentally photographs a man carrying a camera. Soon Matt rushes to the car and reveals that Murty was shot by a man disguised as a cameraman. Though Ruth knows she has gotten the story, she doesn't tell Matt. After the disguised cameraman tells members of the gang about Ruth's photograph, they accost her and Matt as they enter The Star building, and take her camera. When Bill finds out what has happened he is furious, until Ruth shows him that she hid the film in her purse, thus enabling The Star to print the gunman's picture on the front page. Next, Ruth and Matt are assigned to interview Mrs. Murty. After Matt is thrown out of the apartment by Mrs. Murty, Ruth goes in and pretends to be a theatrical agent. She doesn't get a story either, but Bill helps her write a trumped up story about a friend of Eldridge's who is going to reveal his secret information to the police. Though Matt doesn't like Ruth's methods, he is attracted to her and becomes jealous when she agrees to go to the Press Club Masked Ball with Bill. To make Bill jealous, Matt decides to invite Frances, Bill's ex-wife, who still loves Bill, but only sees him when she comes for her alimony checks. Because she is wearing a mask, Bill doesn't recognize Frances and makes a play for her when Matt and Ruth are dancing. Unknown to the real guests, two gangsters have come to the ball to get Ruth out of the way and are wearing disguises. The two men follow her when Bill takes her home, then kidnap the couple. The next day, Bill fruitlessly tries to convince the gangsters that Ruth's story was a fake, but they don't believe him. They are about to shoot him when Matt, who trailed the men by tracking down the costumer from whom they rented their disguises, jumps into the apartment through the window and brandishes a gun. He loses the upper hand when Gleason arrives shortly thereafter, and orders his men to kill the three prisoners when the noise of the next passing elevated train can muffle the shots. Just then, Police Inspector Matson arrives with his men and saves Ruth, Matt and Bill. Finally, with the case closed, Matt decides that he likes women reporters after all, and Bill decides that it is cheaper to remarry Frances than to continue paying her alimony.
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