Lady Hannah Hutley loved ballroom dancing and much to her mother’s disgust, she had chosen the rough Fred Higgs as her partner.
Orphan Ann Grayson is determined to become a ballerina like her mother was. She carries with her, her mother’s yellow ballet shoes and earns her place at Tall Trees ballet school. Her guardian Aunt Rita wants to stop Ann’s ambition, and refuses her money for her keep. so Ann ends up living in an abandoned caravan near the school.
In 1911, just before Kate Darby’s grandmother dies, she tells her she has a long lost brother. Kate sets out to find him, earning her living along the way, by singing and playing her treasured accordion in theatre queues.
Jonny Comet comes to earth in search of his sister. Slim Fiddler realises Jonny could have a great future as a pop-star and appoints himself as Jonny’s manager. Slim’s niece, Mona, helps to keep Jonny’s identity secret.
Belinda Barton is a a child star of film and television, famous for her blue eyes. Belinda lives with her uncle and aunt who take her money in the pretence of helping her “sick” cousin. After a fall Belinda starts suffering from bouts of blurred vision, but she is afraid to tell anyone.
Melody Lee was abandoned as a baby and has two goals in life, to become a ballet dancer and to find her mother.
Cora Rochester is very keen on cooking and wins a trip to Paris to study French cooking.
Candy Kydd is becoming famous for her singing voice, which doesn’t please her jealous stepmother Kaye. Later she wins a scholarship for training in Italy, which leads her on a quest to find her mother she previously thought was dead.
When he died violinist Rupert West left his cook’s daughter money and a violin on the condition that she passed a certain music exam by the end of the years. His relatives want that money so they wish to see Vickie fail.
Nancy Dallas is forbidden to swim by her father so she enters competitions as Miss X. Though she is able to drop the name when her father becomes her best supporter.
