Talent scout Thomas Brooke hits the road, looking for newcomers to bring back for screen tests, hopefully to impress the studio's boss, Dane Wharton.

[4] Brooke discovers a football player in Arizona who can sing, Bud Borden, and a talented Texas singer, Mary Andrews.

On a visit to Arkansas, his presence is discovered by aspiring actress Carolyn Sayres, who schemes to get Brooke to take an interest in her.

Everyone travels to Hollywood for screen tests and a visit to Grauman's Chinese Theater, where they get a kick out of the footprints of movie stars embedded in the cement.

Brooke now gets in her corner and schemes to insert footage from her screen test into a theater's newsreel.