Harold Lloyd gets mixed up with the initiation rites at the Order of Simps Young Turks Lodge in this bizarre Hal Roach one-reeler. Harold, already in glasses if not in glasses character, is enjoying female company in a game of pin the tail on the donkey when he is mistaken for a fleeing initiate by the lodge brothers. Blindfolded and dragged back to the 'temple', Harold finds himself forced to climb atop the building in order to earn his place in the lodge. Though this sounds like a perfect set-up for Lloyd's unique style of physical comedy, we don't actually see him scaling any heights. Oddly enough, the print of this film utilized on All-Day Entertainment's American Slapstick set was a loaner copy supplied by Pathe to the Modern Woodmen of America--a fraternal order that still exists today!
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