Diminutive Bobby Vernon, one of the most nimble of silent cinema comedians, is at his baby-faced best in this short (20 min.) film, playing a lovelorn youth in his patented angelic manner, donning a patrolman's costume with which to woo the police chief's daughter at the Policeman's Ball, being caught up as part of a uniformed raid in Chinatown where, abandoned by his fellows, he outwits, in slapstick fashion, the notorious smuggler Won Lung (Bill Blaisdell) in a work marked by non-stop physical comedy and camera trickery, with a high note being the hilarious cartoons accompanying the titles, created by soon-to-be successful director Norman Z. McLeod.
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