A successful song-and-dance team become romantically involved with a sister act and team up to save the failing Vermont inn of their former commanding general. /// As in Holiday Inn, musicians bring Irving Berlin's lyrics to a New England lodge, this time in Vermont. (The story is not a remake, however.)
Bill's romance with sportswriter Mickey Riley is hampered by a child who is AWOL from military school and Mr. Fosdick's refusal to host an office Christmas party.
A poor merchant grows a highly successful department store in Chicago with the purpose of providing for his four children's future. He is misguided in thinking that giving them everything they want will give them the same ambition that he has, and finally he discovers that their spoiled lives have led his eldest to a scandalous shooting cover-up, the second to a highly-public failed marriage, the third to a music career, and the youngest to life on the streets.