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Alice Howell is running for Chief of Police against Rose Burkhardt. They get into a boxing match; they attempt to sabotage each other's speeches; and finally, there's a dust-up between the victor's elite squad of chorines in uniforms and the other's street cleaners.
Miss Howell was one of the leading comediennes of the silent era, unafraid to take a fall or look silly; her usual role had her with her hair loosely piled atop her head, and a shabby dress. She was very popular to the middle of the 1920s, when she retired, because her shrewd investments in Los Angeles real estate were bringing in more than her screen appearances. But her family is still in show business; her daughter married George Stevens.
This is an all right comedy that has not aged particularly well. It's not that we lack contemporary understanding of the insanity of the other guy's policies; perhaps it's because we take it all too solemnly now.
Miss Howell was one of the leading comediennes of the silent era, unafraid to take a fall or look silly; her usual role had her with her hair loosely piled atop her head, and a shabby dress. She was very popular to the middle of the 1920s, when she retired, because her shrewd investments in Los Angeles real estate were bringing in more than her screen appearances. But her family is still in show business; her daughter married George Stevens.
This is an all right comedy that has not aged particularly well. It's not that we lack contemporary understanding of the insanity of the other guy's policies; perhaps it's because we take it all too solemnly now.