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Ten days later, the gamine takes him to a new home — a run-down shack that she admits " isn't Buckingham Palace " but will do.

The next morning, the factory worker reads about a new factory and lands a job there.

He gets his boss trapped in machinery, but manages to extricate him.

The other workers decide to go on strike.

Accidentally paddling a brick into a policeman, he is arrested again.

Two weeks later, he is released and learns that the gamine is a café dancer.

She tries to get him a job as a singer.

By night, he becomes an efficient waiter though he finds it difficult to tell the difference between the " in " and " out " doors to the kitchen, or to successfully deliver a roast duck to table through a busy dance floor.

During his floor show, he loses a cuff that bears the lyrics of his song, but he rescues his act by improvising the story using an amalgam of word play, words in ( or made up of word parts from ) multiple languages and mock sentence structure while pantomiming.

His act proves a hit.

When police arrive to arrest the gamine for her earlier escape, they escape again.

Finally, we see them walking down a road at dawn, towards an uncertain but hopeful future.