Summary
A plate-glass explosion splinters more than storefront glass in this 1920s two-reeler: it ricochets through class, courtship, and canine politics. Lillian, ice-cool proprietress of a trim cat-and-dog salon, summarily sacks her klutzy clerk Charlie after a street sweeper’s brick shatters her window. Jobless, Charlie lands work papering the city with posters for a ten-thousand-dollar dog pageant; a mongrel pup—half dust-bunny, half heart—tags along, christened Brownie. Seeing salvation in the marquee’s prize money, Charlie grooms the ragamuffin for glory. The night of the gala, crystal chandeliers drip over velvet-lined crates; Lillian glides in with a coiffed ivory poodle destined for the blue rosette. She freezes Charlie with a glare sharp enough to slice liver treats, but chaos, canine and cosmic, has other plans: the pampered poodle vanishes, swapped by Brownie in a kennel sleight-of-paw; dognappers prowl; tongues wag, tails tangle, and the mongrel emerges as both sleuth and savior. When the poodle reappears, Lillian’s frost thaws; the judges, dazzled by Brownie’s ingenuity, crown the mutt champion, and a restored Lillian and Charlie—now equals in purse and pride—exit arm-in-arm, marriage licenses fluttering like victory bunting.
Synopsis
Lillian who owns a cat and dog store, "cans" Charlie, her clerk, when in an altercation with a street sweeper, a brick breaks the front window of the shop. Charlie then gets a job to post bills announcing a "Dog Show" in the Auditorium with $10,000 in cash prizes. While posting the bills, he notices Brownie and a pup and decides to enter pup for a prize. The dog show is a gala event. Lillian also enters a dog, her favorite poodle. She snubs Charlie when she sees him. Lillian's poodle is picked as a blue ribbon winner. Brownie grabs hold of him and hides him, substituting the pup in his stall. Villains enter to steal the prize dog and steal the pup. When Lillian comes to the dog's stall she finds him gone and is frantic Brownie produces the poodle for her and Lillian is overjoyed with Brownie and Charlie, his owner. Thus Charlie and Lillian are brought together again. The directors of the show decide that Brownie is a clever dog and award him first prize. Then Charlie and Lillian, being on an equal footing, get married and all seems to be well with them.
