With good reason to believe that Captain Grant, skipper of the S.S. Brittania, is still alive, Lord Glenarvan, owner of the Steam Navigation Company, sets out to rescue him. They face a series of hair-raising incidents as they travel the 37th parallel.

A reporter and a fashion buyer on the loose in Paris fall in love.

Simone Pistache, owner of a nightclub in Paris where the illegal can-can dance is performed, plays up to lovestruck judge, hoping that her commitment-phobic boyfriend will get jealous and marry her.

Fanny, a fishmonger's daughter with eyes for the barkeeper's son, Marius, has a powerful rival. Marius yearns for a life at sea, not one behind the bar in Marseilles with his blustery but devoted father Cesar. But after Fanny and Marius surrender to their desires, complications separate them, and a solution comes from an unlikely source: the wise, aging sailmaker Panisse.

A Viennese lieutenant is enamored of a freethinking all-girl-orchestra-leading cutie. But complications ensue when the sexually repressed princess of Flausenthurm sets her sights on him.

Princess Olympia falls in love with an American but returns to court to announce her arranged engagement to a not-so-bright prince. Her rival for the prince's affections stirs up a scandal.