바이올리니스트 홀거는 예술적 명망을 차곡차곡 쌓아왔으며, 가정에도 충실하다. 한편, 미모와 재능을 겸비한 아니타가 홀거의 아이들에게 피아노를 가르치는데, 그녀의 연주를 들은 홀거는 그녀에게 빠진다. 자신 때문에 가정도 버린 홀거를 보며 아니타는 사랑과 죄책감 사이에서 갈등한다.
Helga Breder is a young, spoiled girl. To her beloved Jörgen she says that she, as a modern young woman, is multi-talented and can do whatever she likes. Jörgen bets that she can't work as a house-maid but, if she manages it, he will buy her a diamond ring. Helga becomes a house-maid at Vinger Mansion and falls in love with an inventor, Bertil Frigård, who lives there.
The American boat is on its way to Gothenburg. On board are the Swedish-American millionaire Fridolf F. Johnson from Detroit (Håkan Westergren) and his male secretary of the same name (Fridolf Rhudin). The millionaire stays hidden in his cabin with the secretary and does not appear on deck. A journalist arrives out at sea by airplane and asks for an interview, which the millionaire refuses to agree to. The journalist disguises himself as a steward, puts on a hidden camera (a spy camera) in the buttonhole, enters with a tea tray and photographs the wrong person - the secretary.
Danilo invites Hanna Glawari and the two dance a pair of rollers from the operetta's second act. The photographer has waved quite quickly, so the movements are remarkably slow. At one point, both outside picture ends.
