In the workplace, where he is the office manager, Taylor Holmes' slighting nickname is 'Efficiency Edgar', but his methods get results. So when he spots his new neighbor, Virginia Valli, he instantly realizes that a married man is more efficient than a single one, and falls in love. As the title indicates, this movie, based on a Clarence Buddington Kelland story, is about that courtship. It is hampered by his rival for Miss Valli, Rod La Rocque and his guitar, and Miss Valli's father, Ernest Maupin, who does not care for the saxaphone (sic) which Holmes sort of learns to play, nor the dog Holmes buys for his daughter (which eats Maupin's shoes), nor, when it comes down to it, Holmes.
It's really a short story translated to the screen, but it's opened up to a greater variety of settings than a stage play might have, and Holmes is a pretty good comic visually. His expressions when he plays his saxaphone (sic) are very amusing, are are the increasingly violent reactions of Maupin.
It's Holmes' first screen appearance, and he would continue to work on the big and little screen for more than 40 years, dying at the age of 81 in 1959.
It's really a short story translated to the screen, but it's opened up to a greater variety of settings than a stage play might have, and Holmes is a pretty good comic visually. His expressions when he plays his saxaphone (sic) are very amusing, are are the increasingly violent reactions of Maupin.
It's Holmes' first screen appearance, and he would continue to work on the big and little screen for more than 40 years, dying at the age of 81 in 1959.
