Based on the stage comedy by Charles W. Bell and Mark Swan, Buster Keaton plays Reginald Irving, a dimwit who finds himself the unsuspecting party in a scheme concocted by wealthy Jeffrey Haywood (Reginald Denny). It seems that Jeffrey will not be allowed to marry Virginia Embrey (Sally Eilers) until a suitable husband is found for Virginia's older sister Angelica (Dorothy Christy). Since Angelica has rejected all the available suitors, Jeffrey plans to offer Reginald as an eligible mate. First, however, he has to transform our unlikely hero into a gentleman and great lover. Somehow or other, poor Reginald innocently ends up in a compromising situation involving Polly Hathaway (Charlotte Greenwood) and the married Nita Leslie (Joan Peers) at a sophisticated hotel.
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