Young Onions

Forrester Harvey and Dorothy Granger have been married five years, and life has grown dull. She thinks she'll start a diet tomorrow, but as soon as he nods off, she butters another piece of corn and starts eating it. Kenneth Thompson suggests she goes with him to Tijuana, and she orders him to leave. His buddy, Harry Bowen, suggests he goes to Malibu and he says no. But when they quarrel, he announce s she's off to Mexico, and he states he's going to the beach.

It's well acted, but dull. Here's the secret that Mack Sennett had been harboring for 20 years: his performers could act. And Everyone here acts perfectly well. It's just that the gags that would make this a funny comedy are missing. Alas, Sennett's productions are back to where they were in 1912, when his bosses at Biograph insisted on story and acting. He revolted and went off to found Keystone, but now he had grown tired, and the industry was not doing well enough to sustain him.