Richard Walling is a senior at his college, and has never kissed a girl. Nowadays we'd conclude the reasons, but this was the 1920s, and the sort of college where everything is learned except from professors, so all the co-eds try to get him to kiss them. There's a long sequence where he's stuck in the girl's locker room.
It's a very well executed and funny short subject, once you accept its premises. My sources indicate it's the 13th of Fox's "O. Henry" shorts. The company's short comedy division was a source of expensive and funny movies, most of which are now lost. Given the resources of the company, not only the performers under contract, but access to props, sets, and no middle man in the distribution chain, they could afford luxury, and series producer (and director of this short) George Marshall took advantage of it.
It's a very well executed and funny short subject, once you accept its premises. My sources indicate it's the 13th of Fox's "O. Henry" shorts. The company's short comedy division was a source of expensive and funny movies, most of which are now lost. Given the resources of the company, not only the performers under contract, but access to props, sets, and no middle man in the distribution chain, they could afford luxury, and series producer (and director of this short) George Marshall took advantage of it.
