Summary
Gene, a freshly minted graduate of a barbering academy, finds himself thrust into a professional debut that would make even the most seasoned veteran shudder: operating a salon within the cramped, vibrating confines of a biplane. His inaugural client is none other than J. Buckley Russell, a prosperous fruit merchant and Gene’s primary competitor for the affections of the charming Sally Phipps. As the aircraft ascends, the professional veneer of the barber shop dissolves into a theater of airborne vengeance. Gene’s ineptitude, fueled by romantic jealousy and exacerbated by a pilot fond of aggressive aerial maneuvers, turns a routine shave into a life-threatening ordeal. When the plane enters a series of violent tailspins and nose dives, the boundary between service and assault vanishes, leading to a high-stakes pursuit across the wings of the plane that culminates in a literal and metaphorical fall from grace.
Synopsis
After graduating from barber college, Gene gets a shop on an aeroplane as his first field of labor. His first customer is a fruit dealer, J. Buckley Russell, also suitor for the hand of Sally Phipps, the girl in question. What Gene does to his rival once the latter is seated in his barber chair and, for that matter, to other succeeding customers, would undoubtedly be bad enough at best. Add to his natural nervousness a plane doing tail spins and nose dives and you feel that the villain is justified in chasing the hero out on the wings and causing his fall countless miles to the terrain beneath.
