Three Girls About Town

At the Merchants Hotel, a mortician convention and a mediation meeting between aircraft manufacturers and their workers get underway, setting the stage for conflict. Hotel manager Puddle frets over a newspaper critique of the hostesses Faith and Hope Banner, foreshadowing reputational risk. The romance and industry tensions hover over the busy hotel as events unfold.

Hope resists Tommy's suggestion that she take a regular-hours job, highlighting the money that funds Charity's private school. In a tense moment, Charity interrupts and announces she will quit school to become a hostess like her sisters. The family conflict intensifies just as the hotel showdown with the convention gears up.

A dead body is found in the hotel, threatening the venue’s battered reputation. The sisters decide to dump the corpse somewhere else to avoid a scandal, hoping to buy time. Tommy recognizes the victim as the missing labor mediator, turning the case into a potential scoop.

Hope and Faith haul the body into a laundry cart, and Tommy steals it and stumbles into a high-stakes poker game. He places the corpse at the table, calling him 'Sleepy Joe,' and the hand after hand the 'lucky stiff' seems to win. The crowd groans as Tommy frantically tries to keep the cover from collapsing.

Hope and Faith improvise a cover story about a misbehaving husband to justify moving the body. They stash the corpse in mortician Josephus Wiegel's room inside a coffin. The coffin is then hauled away into the morticians' convention room, drawing exposure closer.

Fred Chambers, Tommy's editor, fires him after learning the missing body is not secure. The Chronicle later reports that Tommy found the corpse, triggering a police chase and heightening the stakes.

Charity, strongly attracted to Tommy, directs him to the body and hints at her growing feelings for him. She then tells Hope that Tommy is in love with her, adding to the tangled emotional web. The revelation threatens loyalties as investigators close in.

Tommy appears at the mediation and takes on the role of mediator, aiming to calm the dispute between the manufacturers and workers. He persuades both sides using patriotic rhetoric and a shared sense of duty. The move helps push them toward a workable compromise.

The chief of police arrests Tommy amid the ongoing chaos surrounding the body. Hope and Faith scramble to salvage the situation, while Puddle contends with the fallout. The arrest heightens tension at the hotel and threatens the delicate mediation process.

On the way out, the editor promotes Tommy after learning that he helped avert the strike. The unexpected career win comes despite the arrest, shaping Tommy's standing with his newspaper and the public.

Charlemagne, a drunk spectator, recognizes the corpse and, with a clap of his hands, revives it through hypnosis. The revived body exits the scene and the police release the people involved as the bizarre spectacle settles.

Tommy offers to arrange an immediate marriage license to end the legal trouble rather than waiting days. Hope assumes he plans to wed Charity, but Tommy corrects her, revealing his real intention is something else. Charity's scheming persists behind the scenes.

When Charity shows up still lying about her relationship with Tommy, Hope puts her over her knee and spanks her. Faith joins in, followed by Puddle, bringing a comic, cathartic end to the misunderstandings.