Summary
In the bustling newsroom of a 1920s metropolitan daily, a society matron's priceless pearl necklace vanishes, prompting an urgent call for a reward notice. The editor, eager to capitalize on the scandal, promises the first reporter who uncovers the theft and retrieves the gems a promotion to editor. Baby Peggy, the fleet‑footed stenographer with a penchant for mischief, seizes the opportunity. Disguised in borrowed menswear and a comically ill‑fitted moustache, she tails two unsuspecting ruffians as they limp away in a rattling flivver. A sudden altercation erupts between the crooks; Peggy, ever resourceful, commandeers the vehicle amid their brawl and speeds to the aristocrat’s mansion. There, she interrogates the stoic butler, whose nervous gestures betray a hidden complicity. After being rebuffed multiple times, Peggy ingeniously hides inside a freshly delivered phonograph cabinet, emerging moments later with the pearls clutched in her tiny hands. She rushes back to the pressroom, triumphantly presents the recovered jewels, and is instantly elevated to the editorial throne, commanding the newsroom with a triumphant flourish. The film, a brisk comedy of errors, showcases Peggy’s audacious spirit, the slap‑slap of silent‑era physical humor, and a narrative that celebrates ingenuity over aristocratic entitlement.
Synopsis
When the wealthy society woman has her beautiful pearls stolen she hurries to the newspaper office to have a notice of reward printed immediately. The editor offers to make the first reporter who brings in the details of the robbery and recovers the pearls, an editor, Baby Peggy, as the boss' stenographer, hears this and decides to be the one. She procures some male attire and a false mustache. Leaving the office, she sees two of the regulars just going off in a flivver. She jumps in the rear seat, unnoticed and by punching first one and then the other leads them to believe that the other is getting too fresh. They have words and finally get out to settle the matter, fistically. Our heroine seizes the opportunity and drives away in the car while the men are fighting. She arrives at the home of the society woman and questions the butler. His actions convince her that she is on the right track and after being thrown out several times she reenters in a new phonograph cabinet being delivered. While in the cabinet she gets the goods on the butler and rushes with her story and the pearls to the office where she is made editor and has them all jumping at her command.
