Neal Burns is such a hard worker than he has driven his father, Lincoln Plumer, into retirement. Plumer thinks Burns works too hard, and to distract him has arranged for his friend's daughter, Vera Steadman, to convince Burns that she is a gold digger and Plumer wants to marry him.
Heavens! The entire thing, therefore, is a series of practical jokes. As a motivation for movie comedies, this would have been a bore a dozen years before. True, Burns takes his prat falls in medium long shot well enough, but the Christies had spent the last half dozen years of the Teens decrying slapstick as mechanical, unmotivated and lacking all real drama. Then they spent most of the 1920s turning out slapstick comedies proving that very point.
That's why, of the four major slapstick producers of the 1920s - Sennett, Roach, Jack White and Christie - I rank Christie last. There are those who like the purely mechanical approach to comedy. I'm not one of them.