Blossom Time

Lom Won and Fei Ying, members of a Chinese opera troupe, take some off to tour California and look at wild flowers. As they stroll in the countryside near San Francisco, Ying notices the beautiful voice of Chin Quai Fong, a farmer, as he sings a traditional Chinese song. Fong's mother offers the touring artists a cup of tea, but Wong, anxious and jealous of Ying's attention to Fong, insists that they return to San Francisco. Ying promises to leave Fong and his mother tickets for her upcoming performance in the city. Later, during an intermission of the performance, Fong visits Ying, but Wong enters the dressing room and intimidates him. Fong is about to leave, but Ying reappears and tells him her wish that he audition for the show. Fong's only worry is his mother, but Ying convinces the kindly matriarch that Fong is a great talent and that she would support the family in the event that he failed on the stage. Chin, the director of the show, is hesitant to hire Fong, but after hearing his lovely singing voice and witnessing the reaction of female members of the audience to Fong's handsome face, he offers Fong a six-month contract. Soon Fong and Ying begin to fall in love, and Wong grows jealous of Fong for stealing his fame and the woman he loves. One night, at a restaurant, Spanish caberet performer Yong Sho Lum, whom Wong has hired to rupture the relationship between Fong and Ying, flirts with Fong, and when Ying goes to take a phone call from Wong, Lum slips Fong her phone number. A few days later, Fong tells Ying that he is sick and then goes to Lum's apartment. Worried about Fong, Ying goes to his home, finds the dancer's note, then follows Fong to his rendez-vous . Furious and hurt, Ying leaves Fong and in her sorrow begins to spend more time with Wong, fixing his stage makeup as she once did for Fong. Meanwhile, Fong's performances grow sloppy, and he spends so much time with Lum that he frequently arrives late to the theater. On one such occasion, Chin fires Fong, who then seeks comfort with Lum. Lum, meanwhile, has gone to see Wong to demand her payment for ruining Fong and Ying's love affair, but Wong slaps her and laughs in her face and the teary-eyed dancer returns to Fong and tells him of Wong's treachery. Fong goes to see Wong, punches him in the face, then goes to another town, where he struggles to find work. Meanwhile, Fong's mother and niece have not heard from him, and Ying sends them money for their support. One day, as they drive through a town near San Francisco, Ying and Wong get a flat tire. While taking a walk they hear the voice of Fong singing in a Chinese restaurant. Ying forgives Fong, and Wong storms out. Then Ying tells Fong that together they will restore his career and the pair go for a reunion with Fong's overjoyed mother.