Gwendoline Lizzie Parkenheimer, the daughter of the Tripe King, is the object of the attentions of two suitors, Binks and Ratto, the opera tenor. But father has a great fondness for music, and says that the one who has the best voice can have his daughter, The voices are tried out and Binks gets the worst of it. He is "blue" when he reads, a few weeks later that his loved one is about to become the bride of Ratto. But the article also says that if at any time before the wedding anyone who can beat the tenor at his game he will get the bride. Sitting in the park, a great idea comes to Binks, and it materializes when he hears a tramp singing in the park. So he takes Antonio and they rush in just as the knot is about to be tied. Binks challenges Ratto, and they prepare to sing. And he would have succeeded in the deception had not Antonio run off with the maid and left him flat.