Daphne Pollard has been sent for a job as a cook at Doctor Herbert Prior's house. When she gets there, however, burglars Edgar Kennedy and Arthur Housman are already there, and have tied up Prior and stuck him in a closet, while Kennedy masquerades as the medico.
It;s a rough slapstick movie with Pollard wrestling Kennedy into submission. Miss Pollard was short, which is how she came to be in America. Born in Australia in 1891 and christened Daphne Trott, she had gone on stage as part of Pollard's Lilliputian Opera Company. On tour in the US, she had left the company to try Hollywood; like all the alumni, she used the Pollard name as her own on screen, and had a good deal of success in the late 1920s and early 1930s. Although her movie career faded out in the mid-1940s, she stayed in the US and died in 1978.