Strife of the Party

Vera Vague (real name: Barbara Jo Allen) and husband Lorin Raker are preparing for a dinner party with his boss, Vernon Dent and wife. The next door neighbor asks Mr. Raker to hold a lady's wrist watch for him until the morning -- it has been stolen from the boss's wife!

It's an early and essentially three-gag movie directed by Harry Edwards in a style of physical comedy that apparently did not suit Miss Vague, because she asked that all her future shorts be directed by Jules White. Although White is certainly not my cup of tea, Edward's direction is very bad. It's astonishing for the man who directed Harry Langdon's early comedy shorts and first two features! His directing career, which had begun in 1915 for Universal, would end a couple of years after this. His writing credits would continue for another ten years, but for older scripts that were reused or mined for material. He had already died in 1952 at the age of 64.