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A small-town newspaper editor has to decide which is more important to his readers - seemingly mundane local events, or a sensational crime story with a passing local connection.

Sir Percy Newbiggin visits the fleet to find ways to economize Naval expenditures. Daughter Celia tags along, and organizes a morale-boosting show utilizing ship-board talent. Her fiancé shows up, and romantic complications ensue.

A brash American movie producer arrives at an army base in England wanting to shoot a movie and use the soldiers as extras. The base commander doesn't want any part of it, but the producer and his secretary cook up a scheme to trick the officer into letting him use the base and its men. Their plan succeeds, but things don't turn out quite the way they were expecting.

A kindly old judge makes a pal of a young neighborhood boy and recites the Eugene Field poem to him as they enter a long-closed nursery in the judge's mansion...the room of the judge's son who was the same age as the judge's new-found friend when he died.