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Chester does not know how his ideas are still getting to Gladstone. But Thompson was dating one of the chorus girls, Gracie, who continued to feed him information about all the ideas that Chester came up with. When Thompson’s duplicity was discovered he was immediately fired. Thompson, one of the crew, was the one who was running to Gladstone, the competitor, with every one of Chester’s ideas. Nan got wind of this and ran right to Silas Gould demanding that he pay Chester. In fact they were keeping all the profits for themselves. You see they had been holding out on Chester, telling him that they were putting all their profits back into the business as well as Chester’s profits. This sets Nan to work wrangling money out of the owners, Gould and Zimmer. Though they can’t stand each other she wants some of Chester’s money to proceed with the divorce.

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Half way through the movie she returns – now that Chester has earned a lot of money. He had a wife who walked out on him in an earlier scene to get a divorce from him but never obtained it. As it turns out Chester is not free anyway.

In the end she is unsuccessful, but her presence causes a great deal of trouble for both Chester and Nan.

Vivian and Nan have a type of animosity from some previous association and Vivian tries to steal Chester away from Nan. An acquaintance of Nan comes to town, Vivian, who stays with Nan for a while, but is not very welcome. She is interested in Chester, but he seems to be oblivious to her interest. Another budding romance is in the heart of Nan Prescott who is Chester’s secretary.