Mack Swain inherits his uncle's fashionable cafe -- we're told the old man is dead, but he may just be using that as an excuse -- but between the help stealing all the receipts, and vamp Fontaine La Rue running the badger game on him, he may not be able to keep the joint.
The copy of the film that I looked at only timed in at 10 minutes, despite the 20-minute runtime attributed to it. It has, alas, the clunky and cluttered pacing of many of the later Sennett Keystones, wrecked by re-issuers who decided they knew better than the guys who made this originally what would please the audiences. It didn't please me.
With Polly Moran, Eva Thatcher, Tom Kennedy, and many to-be-storied comedians who worked for Sennett.
