To help raise funds needed to appeal her father's case, Bonnie Day opens a tearoom featuring a group of stranded choristers performing a cabaret revue. The father is in prison because of a trumped-up charge made by some stock swindlers. Aunt Pearl would like Bonnie to marry small-town capitalist Napoleon Dobbings, but Bonnie is in love with young lawyer Art Binger. Binger eventually effects a release from prison for Mr. Day just at the height of Bonnie's business career.—AFI

Bonnie Day, a modern girl with a penchant for business, endeavors to raise money to free her father framed by crooked business associates. Her first attempt, a "Lesson Factory" at school, secures only her expulsion. Her aunt demands her marriage to Napoleon Dobbings, a rich but conceited "sap", who believes he was born to conquer women. Bonnie consents to be "married" in order to detain the "minister", a disguised crook. Art Dinger her sweetheart, rushes to her aid and ingeniously captures the crooks, bring a reward to Bonnie. Now Bonnie opens a bizarre tea room and starts Art to work on her father's case. But Napoleon, believing that Bonnie's business failure would result in her marriage to him, tells the reformers of the local Purity League that she is serving tea - with a "kick". He "spikes" their tea to prove it - and the hypocritical "teetotalers" become gloriously pickled. Napoleon also gets Birdie Puddleford, who is infatuated with him, to stage a fashion show as a rival attraction. This ends in a riot of mirth when one of Bonnie's loyal tea maids succeeds in cutting off the entire rear of Birdie's gown. While the reformers denounce her, Bonnie forestalls them by announcing she will serve "Tea- With a Kick. " The combined advertising brings the parched townspeople in droves to the tea room. But Bonnie's "Tea-With a Kick" is the tea her maids serve, plus the "kick" furnished by the unique pageant they put on. Art's efforts, coupled with Bonnie's earnings from her father. Bonnie and Art are happily united after an exciting but unnecessary chase to save the boat (on which they are being married) from being blown up - per Napoleon's orders. Napoleon's blackhand henchman had become so engrossed in Bonnie's show that he forgot to place the bomb.—Copyright Description from Library of Congress