An early short Stan Laurel made for Joe Rock a few years before he hooked up with Oliver Hardy, this half-baked comedy is fairly typical of the sort of material Laurel was producing back then. This one's a parody of Sherlock Holmes with Stan playing Webster Dingle, a hapless private eye complete with an over-sized pipe and equally over-sized checks on his jacket. He dresses up as a maid in this one to entrap a philandering husband. Amongst the dross there is one genuinely funny moment – when the visitor he has been trying to impress by holding an imaginary conversation on the phone turns out to be the phone engineer come to connect him – and one mildly amusing sequence when he follows his own footsteps in the house of his target. The quality of the print that I saw was bad enough to hurt the eyes.