 A newspaper gossip-columnist, Roy Carver, surreptitiously offers to pay her $5 for candid shots of important guests.She agrees to, but negotiates a $10 price.After Lila gets a photo of Horace Sutherland, an attorney known for his gangster clientele, together with his mistress, Lila essentially extorts him for a job at 'Club Coco', a new fancy nightclub with 'more important' patrons.