Joan Terry from a Mid-Western smalltown comes to New York to get a job on the stage. But until she finds an opportunity she stays at a boarding house where other talent is also waiting. To get a better chance the people there decide to build a talent pool where the person with the most chances for a job gets the full support trying to get jobs for the others there too - and Joan is chosen to do that. But this is not so easy when her fiance is trying to keep her away from the stage...