Meek busboy Little Pinks is in love with an extremely selfish nightclub singer who despises and uses him.
Young Austrian Archduke Paul "Gustl" Gustave is in an arranged engagement but his uncle, the emperor, decides to let Gustl carry on a fling with ballet dancer Lisl Gluck.
This Technicolor short features the songs of the great American popular composer Stephen Collins Foster. Based on Foster's memoirs.