Summary
One Woman to Another" unfurls a farcical dance of matrimonial frustration, charting the comedic misadventures of John Bruce and Rita Farrell. Their repeated attempts to formalize their union are consistently thwarted by an escalating series of external interferences and self-inflicted complications. The arrival of Rita's brother, Reverend Robert Farrell, with his two young wards, immediately imposes a domestic burden that delays their plans. Further complications arise from a scarlet fever quarantine, followed by John’s susceptibility to the advances of the calculating Miss Chapin. This romantic entanglement forces Rita, with her friend Olive Gresham, to orchestrate an elaborate scheme involving a staged "compromise" to corner John into marriage, culminating in a chaotic, traffic-snarled pursuit towards an uncertain, yet inevitable, resolution.
Synopsis
John Bruce and Rita Farrell are constantly frustrated in their attempts to get married. They agree on a date, but unexpectedly her brother, the Reverend Robert Farrell, arrives along with his niece and nephew, both of whom he places in her care for 6 months while he travels to the Orient. John continues his suit until the niece is stricken with scarlet fever and a quarantine keeps John away. Meanwhile, John is vamped by a Miss Chapin; and Rita, with the aid of her friend Olive Gresham, schemes to compromise John into immediate marriage. Although Miss Chapin is forced to stay overnight with John in his car, Rita manages to faint, attired in a negligee, into his arms. To save him from a trouncing at the hands of Farrell, Rita claims that they are married. After a mad chase through a traffic jam, the lovers are united.