Constance Bennett is a hard working girl working the night shift as boss Kenneth MacKenna throws a party in between giving her dictation. He's in the middle of a scandal involving his married mistress and has been named correspondent in her divorce. To clear his name, he proposes to Bennett with the intention of sending her off to Europe for a year until his name is free of scandal and he can divorce her without repercussions. But as always happens in these situations, the young heroine falls in love with the playboy rascal, even though while in Europe, she's seen hobnobbing with MacKenna's friend, Basil Rathbone. Scandal resumes when she returns to the states with Rathbone, and the now divorced mistress (Rita La Roy) threatens scandal of her own if MacKenna doesn't divorce Bennett to marry her even though he admittedly doesn't love her. She even goes as far as to violently break a mirror as if to give this couple more than just seven years of bad luck.
This mildly amusing drawing room comedy is glamorously staged, even though the public domain prints are not necessarily the best. Bennett is charming, if slightly too elegant to be playing a working girl, and her Cinderella-like transformation into world traveler shows her to better advantage. Rathbone is far more likable than MacKenna, and their romantic adventures all over Europe are quite amusing. Zasu Pitts is totally wasted as Bennett's roommate, appearing in two brief sequences, pretty much a waste of one of silent movies most memorable leading ladies who became one of talking pictures most memorable character comics. The plot is not to be taken seriously but is mildly amusing and filled with art deco galore even if the theme is quite sexist by today's standards.
This mildly amusing drawing room comedy is glamorously staged, even though the public domain prints are not necessarily the best. Bennett is charming, if slightly too elegant to be playing a working girl, and her Cinderella-like transformation into world traveler shows her to better advantage. Rathbone is far more likable than MacKenna, and their romantic adventures all over Europe are quite amusing. Zasu Pitts is totally wasted as Bennett's roommate, appearing in two brief sequences, pretty much a waste of one of silent movies most memorable leading ladies who became one of talking pictures most memorable character comics. The plot is not to be taken seriously but is mildly amusing and filled with art deco galore even if the theme is quite sexist by today's standards.