For some reason, Jules White had paired Buster Keaton with Elsie Ames in 6 of the 10 shorts he made at Columbia Pictures. Ames was a bizarre burlesque dancer/comedienne who had worked at the studio's shorts department, as well as her husband Nick Arno (who has a small role in this short as an army doctor). Essentially, Buster is a millionaire who is smitten with an army nurse (Dorothy Appleby) and does everything he can to get hurt on the premises so Appleby can treat him, but he's constantly running into her friend (Ames). On the plus, there is an outlandish amount of slapstick in this, including a song-and-dance number between Buster, Elsie, and a stack of spitoons.
Review of General Nuisance
