Lola Lane is a public stenographer at a Manhattan hotel. Her room mate, Esther Muir, runs the switchboard. Engineer Buster Collier likes her when she tries to grab the cab he's in, and he pursues her between trying to get a government contract.
Like many a Poverty Row movie, this has a strong opening scene, with the two girls walking home from a double date that went wrong, but the movie becomes rather dull after that. The actors give it their best, although the scene where Collier is teaching her to play golf, while realistic, is more about how he's annoyed with her inability to take to the game and to my 21st-century ear does not sound like a man trying to win over a woman.
Miss Lane was the oldest of the four Lane Sisters. She was born Dorothy Mullican in . After a start playing the piano in a movie house at 12, she got a contract with Gus Edwards and toured in vaudeville. Eventually she and her sisters got Warner Brothers contract, but while she gave some good performances, her leads never got out of the Bs and she retired from the screen in 1946 to round out her fourth marriage (to Roland West until his death) and Robert Hanlon (to hers) in 1981.
