Based on one of Harry Langdon's stage skits, Harry Langdon is told by Edgar Kennedy to deliver a letter to Thelma Todd, who vamps him some. Not that Harry notices. He's a pyromaniac in this short comedy, the first he did under his contract with Hal Roach.
Langdon's comedies are peculiar things, because a lot of the gags are going on in Harry's mind, and he doesn't care about the same things that other people care about. I sympathize with that other-worldliness, but he can carry it too far. Fortunately, with Thelma and Kennedy to ground him, he merely seems nuts. I think this one works, but I enjoy his work at Roach, which has gotten a bad rap over the years.
This leads off the new two-disc set HARRY LANGDON AT HAL ROACH: THE TALKIES 1929-30. See if you can figure out what's on it from the title. There are some presentation issues. Although the picture quality is astonishingly good, the soundtrack is missing, so Kit Parker and Richard Roberts commissioned a score and titles.