We first see them together covering the execution of a woman, where Garfield faints and Devlin sends in a story for her. The only thing is that her paper, the Star has the same story as his the Express, and both reporters feel the heat from their respective editors. The next story that they are trying to out-scoop each other over is an apartment fire, but the bigger story is that showbiz producer and playboy Marvin Q. Stone (Huntley Gordon) was seen fleeing the building with a stab wound. As the story unravels through the efforts of Devlin and Garfield, we learn that Stone’s girlfriend Inez Cordoza (Winifred Shaw) and polo player Maitland Coulter (Gordon Westcott) were also in the apartment. When Stone dies in the hospital, the film follows the arc of having the reporters topping each other on one story after another until at the end Garfield proves herself by topping him and they call it a truce and kiss as Devlin admits she passes muster as a reporter and she agrees to marry him.