Summary
Bobby Vernon’s collegiate prank—slicing didoes through ivy-draped corridors—earns him a brusque ticket to expulsion and a paternal ultimatum: conjugal respectability or pecuniary exile. Bereft of fiancées, he strong-arms chum Teddy Sampson into silk-and-lace drag, the two bachelors improvising a counterfeit matrimony in a sun-bleached California bungalow. The masquerade pirouettes on razor-thin farce until Vera Steadman and Charlotte Merriam—two flappers agleam with jazz-age mischief—waltz in, scrambling appetites and identities alike. Bobby, smitten, courts the neon-bright girls while Teddy fumes beneath powder and petticoats, each overlapping deception tightening the screw. When Gino Corrado’s apoplectic paterfamilias storms the threshold, demanding a public osculation as proof of uxorious devotion, the charade teeters on the lip of catastrophe. A final reel of swapped veils and hastily procured brides reinstates order, the real women consenting to altar vows that retroactively launder the whole shimmering escapade.
Synopsis
Two undergraduates are expelled from college for cutting up didoes. To square things with father, one of them is forced to settle down by entering matrimony and, no girls being visible on the horizon, he intrigues his chum to pose as his wife. He disguises himself in frills, negligees, and what not, and events look safe for them until a couple of girls happen on the scene. Bobby is determined to be with the flappers much to the chagrin of his chum. Eventually the irate papa comes to the house and asks Bobby to show his affection for his "spouse" by kissing him. In the end the complications are straightened out when the real girls consent to go through with the marriage ceremony.
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