Directed by Alf Goulding, this 1915 one-reel short was one of the early experiments with Harold Lloyd's new "glasses" character. Lloyd had chosen the turtle-shell glasses carefully, but wasn't yet certain about other details of his character's appearance. The boy first appears in top hat and tails, as if playing a fatcat on the town, but we soon learn he has only one coin to his name, and drops that down a sewer drain trying to flip the coin to make a decision.
One misplaced bar of soap and a pratfall brings this unfinished young man into the orbit of Bebe Daniels, playing a Cinderella-type girl whose boyfriend is the swaggering runt Snub Pollard. These are the costars that Lloyd used throughout this period, but here he throws them together into a situation consciously modeled on the Keystone comedies where Lloyd first got his start.
By David Kalat
