When Sammy calls on Helen, be is greatly humiliated to find that Jim, his rival, is presiding at the piano and fascinating the fair one. "If I could only sing and show this fellow up," philosophizes Sammy. A great scheme occurs to him. He secures a phonograph, which an accomplice places through a window and through a well-plan code of signals the "phoney singer" makes a big hit. Helen forgets Jim completely. But fate plays a cruel trick on Sammy. Jim discovers the scheme and arranges with a policeman to arrest the accomplice as a suspicious character. Then Jim makes the phonograph perform a variety of stunts, which disconcert the pretender and bring about the grand expose.
