Ms Kathleen's

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Like a modern day Gentleman’s Club, the name of the game is to get the cabaret clients to buy drinks. The manager of the club allows men to frequent the ladies dressing room if they will buy a bottle of expensive champagne香槟 — sparkling wine. He demands that Lola drink with a visiting sailor who has lots of cash. The sailor treats Lola rudely as the Professor watches. He becomes furious and chases out the sailor after a fight of sorts.

The sailor then returns with the cops, causing the magician to hide the Professor in the cellar. The Professor finds his students and emerges from the cellar, bringing them up with him. The ordeal with the sailor is resolved by the police taking him back to the station because one of the parties to the scuffle is a sober Professor, who is much more credible to the Officer than a drunk sailor. The Professor talks of punishing the students, but only chases them out of the cabaret.

The Professor is then given drinks to calm his nerves, leading to him becoming pleasantly inebriated as he is serenaded by Lola. Lola sings from the stage of how she is falling in love again, and can't help it. The song is once again prophetic (like the sad clown and the Shakespearian references) of things to come.