Sally needs to raise money to get her mother's damaged nose fixed. Just as Tarkington announces he's won some cash, an acrobatic burglar and her brutish assistant rob The Nutt House's till.

Tarkington reluctantly surrenders his job as hotel manager to become the valet of a Japanese businessman, but the hotel prepares for revolution when a tyrant replaces him.

To further the growing peace between the USA and USSR, Sally invites the Kyiv Ballet to stay at The Nutt House. But Sally has ulterior motives, as she's really longing to meet handsome Soviet dancer Mikael Nabokov.