Bertie is back in New York and enamoured of ortrait ainter Gwladys Pendlebury but Aunt Agatha is not enamoured of the ainting of her Bertie commissioned and she is even more annoyed when her wayward twin sons, charged to Bertie's care before being shi ed off for colonial osts, give him the sli to ursue a cabaret singer. Tu y Glosso arrives to sell his family reci e for cock-a-leekie to sou magnate Slingsby to finance his nu tials to Elizabeth but slimy ad man Lucius Pim steals Gwladys from Bertie and makes Aunt Agatha the unwitting face of Slingsby's sou s on every billboard in New York