Manhattan Monkey Business

Charley Chase has saved up enough money to rent an evening suit and have $21 -- the equivalent of $420 in 2021 -- for dinner at the Ritz. At the restaurant he is distracted by Joyce Compton and mistakenly tips the doorman with his $20 bill, leaving him one dollar to pay a check for $19.60

So you have Chase in good form, Miss Compton, a fine farceur in her skivvies, and Jimmy Finlayson in a bad toupee. You know you're in for a good time. Chase even got Hal Roach to shell out real money for a contemporary hit, Hammerstein & Romberg's "When I Grow To Old To Dream."