Frank McHugh is a browbeaten man with an overbearing boss, a hectoring fiancee in Jane Wyman, and a awful prospective mother-in-law in Cora Witherspoon. They go to an auction house to purchase furniture, but McHugh sees a statue that looks like his ideal woman. He buys it for $100, arousing the ire of the two women, and the offers for profit from Berton Churchill; it seems the statue is modeled on his daughter, Diana Lewis. But McHugh will not sell
This is a well-constructed comedy that irritates me far too much to enjoy. McHugh isn't strong enough to carry even a 57-minute comedy. He's playing one of those characters who are timid as rabbits, which annoys me. I think the people who made this movie understood they had to dig for giggles, so they named McHugh's character .Lambert T. Hunkins, and his employer Oxnard O. Parsons, and had him put the statue on a plinth so it could continually wobble and threaten to fall and shatter. All of those things annoy me. I think it's a matter of personal taste, so I'm giving it the benefit of the doubt.
In the midst of all this annoyance, I should note that Tom Kennedy gives a nice comic performance as a gangster deputed to guard McHugh and the statue. But it isn't enough to make me like this movie.
