Buckley is an unethical reporter who manipulates the news for his own benefit as much as he reports it. When he is in Paris to get a medal for being rescued from his alleged kidnappers, he finds that his boss, Stevens, at the Chicago Globe is going with his old gal Dolly. When Stevens learns that Dolly is staying with Buckley in Moscow, he fires Buckley. To get his job back, Buckley and Lefty stage a great news story about the shooting of the last Romanoff, but the plan backfires and they are now in line to be shot by the Commissar.

The town matchmaker searches for an honest match for Carolina, the daughter of a wealthy man. He finds it in the bumbling, stuttering Kuni Lemel, who has a remarkable resemblance to her lover, Max. Things go south when two Kuni Lemels arrive in town.