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Father is relaxing at home when Judy enters to tell him about the most wonderful stage show ever, Love in the Slums. Randolph wanders in a few moments later to express his embarrassment over his emotional older sister. When mother enters, she gripes about a rival housewife. Does it have anything to do with her old acting career in the theater?
Judy returns to dreaming over the romance of the stage show, and wishes she could live in the slums. Not imppressed with her romantic dreams, Randolph realizes that all the big celebrities need an agent. Motivated by his 10% cut, he agrees to help launch Judy into the theater.
Trying to make an impression for the role, Judy dresses down in tattered clothes. How are her chances at the part against Mrs. Whiteman and her daughter Tootsie? The theater manager holds out for a mother and daughter team for the part, so judy plays up the fictional financial downfall of the Foster family. Now all she has to do is convince mother to come out of acting retirement.
Mother resists, until she learns of Mrs. Whiteman’s sure shot at the role. Racing off to the opera house, mother is clueless that the manager only gives her the part because of the sympathy over the ficticious poor estate of the family.
The night on the town finds father and Randolph celebrating the launch of the acting careers. Mother and Judy are nervous, but though they do well enough, Mrs. Whiteman thinks otherwise. Imagine the family’s confusion when people begin to talk down to them. Why the donation of old clothes, and lectures over being a drunkard?
