Storyline The story relates the troubles of "Permanent Williams," darktown cabaret owner, who is forced to hire his divorced wife and her new husbands as entertainers. His second wife doesn't relish the fact, so, in the words of Cohen, "troubles is somethin' Permanent ain't got nothing else exceptin'."
Storyline Privacy Robson is a downtrodden husband who takes advice from his friend
Florian Slappey. He eventually gets the upper hand after starting
divorce proceedings, pretending to have a new girlfriend and refusing to
eat anything she cooks him.
Storyline Between swing numbers, Calloway finds time to flirt with the wife of a pullman porter, while her husband is away at work. Orchestra plays "Rail Rhythm" and "The Lady with the Fan."