Paul (Charles Ruggles) and Alan (Phil Harris) are the best of pals. Both board a steamer going from New York to California via the Panama Canal with very different goals in mind: Paul doesn’t want to get in any trouble with his wife waiting for him at the destination, while Alan simply doesn’t want to get married. To ensure this, Alan writes up a list of fake affairs that Paul hasn’t committed (“Compared to you, Casanova was an Eskimo!”) and sends them to Paul’s wife, with the envelope printed “Read this if Alan ever gets married.”
Alan’s complications come in the form of his longtime paramour, Elsa (Nissen). They’ve chased each other around Europe and have just started getting close to serious. To throw them off, Paul enlists Hickey (Chick Chandler) to instead Alan into the arms of school teacher Laurie (Mack); unfortunately, that only puts him on another path towards marital bliss.
Meanwhile, two women get stranded in Charlie Ruggle’s cabin after a wild party. They spend most of the film in their negligees, cracking wise. Ruggles is forced to portray the women as his nieces to keep from getting in trouble.
A popular playboy goes on a cruise from New York in winter to California. He brings a friend to keep him from getting too serious with any of the many eligible women on the cruise. The plot complicates when he does fall in love with one and attempts to pursue her over the objections of his friend.
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