"[2] Vance also notes, "The picture is like a chaotic funhouse, filled with magical masquerades, illusions, and gimmicks of great momentary amusement.

Charlie organizes a party to convince rich people to participate to this cause, but the event ends up catastrophically.

Charlie, who spends the night at the police station, meets a crook who pretend to be a member of the very influential Vanderbrook family.

To regain Estrell’s favor, Charlie arranges a meeting with him and other false influential personalities, who are in reality burglars and gamblers.

Realizing that he has been deceived, but in need to fulfill a promise he made, he arranges a false meeting between Estrell and dummies posing as real people.