Alice wanted to go on the stage and her actor cousin wrote her he would give her the chance. On her wedding day she gets word that he is in town and delays the wedding to get him on the phone and ask him over. But the actor is busy rehearsing his great death scene and annoyed by the ringing of the phone bell takes the receiver off the hook and leaves it. And then comes trouble in bunches. The groom is arrested as a murderer, the little bride is distracted and the wedding finally takes place in a police court.