Inside a dressing room of Variety at Honkey Tonk, Bootz, the German comedian, and Plotz, co-star, are making up. There is a card game in full swing from which Plotz, who is evidently the only man in the room who gives his money to his wife instead of buying chips with it, is excluded, on the ground that he doesn't pay his gambling debts. He and Plotz adjourned to the stage and proceed to do a few contortions, flavored with some slap-stick comedy. The audience applauds vigorously and the headliners are a success. Blotz has long since been inoculated with the gambling germ and when the "ghost" appears with the salaries, he gets into the game. Suffice it to say that he loses all his money and is afraid to face his wife. He frames up a deal with the other thespians whereby they will "beat him up" in a mild sort of way, just enough to soil his clothing and to convince his wife that he has been held up and robbed. The game is effective, and after Blotz has been trimmed up. his wife sends for a doctor, confides in him that she has money in the bank. Blotz unwittingly tells his wife that if he had not paid his gambling debts the money would have been stolen by the highwaymen, anyway, and she is immediately suspicious. She pulls him off the bed and hands him the pail so that he can get some Irish champagne. Blotz reluctantly goes out. He meets the boys, and they tell him how he was beaten up by a couple of thugs who had nothing to do with the frame-up at all. While Blotz is out getting the thirst-destroyer, the three who were in the "frame-up" enter to note the result of their trick, and Mrs. Blotz immediately throws them upon the bed and goes through their pockets, recovering the money which had been paid to them as gambling debts. Mrs. Blotz drinks the contents of the pail herself.
—Moving Picture World synopsis