The Morning Daily newspaper’s Mr. Inquisitive column - which has the tagline “I’m Much Obliged” - is holding a contest: tell Mr. Inquisitive what you would like to do, and those stories which are printed in the newspaper are eligible for a prize. Mr. Inquisitive gets many of these stories from random telephone calls he makes. Most of those people he happens to call are performing artists, who not only tell Mr. Inquisitive what they would like to do, but show him through their performances. The Auntie Pru’s Recipe column, which is adjacent to Mr. Inquisitive’s and which is written by Mr. Inquisitive’s exasperated and sleepless male colleague, gets Mr. Inquisitive into a few scrapes along the way.