Flighty Millicent Jordan (Burke) plans a dinner honoring visiting British nobility, blissfully unaware of business reversals experienced by husband Oliver (Lionel Barrymore), or her willful daughter's affair with washed-up star Larry Renault (John Barrymore). Among the dinner's guests are crude tycoon Dan Packard (Beery) with whom Oliver hopes to do business, his social-climbing wife Kitty (Harlow), and retired stage actress Carlotta Vance (Dressler). Not everything goes as planned, but the evening will be anything but dull.