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Even though he works in a garage and is bullied by his boss, Mock Epply (Walter Long), Willie Bascom (Johnny Hines) sports a pair of fashionable white trousers that get him into considerable difficulty. Willie meets Helen Charters (Leila Hyams), daughter of a wealthy manufacturer, when they stop on their way to a Palm Springs resort. Charters takes an interest in a magnetic bumper device invented by Willie, who gets an opportunity to deliver a fancy car to the resort, dressed in his white pants and with Wong (George Kuwa), a Chinese laundryman, pretending to be his chauffeur. Willie is mistaken for a crack polo player, and by bluffing he manages to win a polo game, the admiration of Helen, and Charters' support in promoting his invention. The ending banquet at a giant round table has all the guests sitting on hobby-horses to eat their dinner from and that rotates around the table complete with Busby Berkeley like overhead camera shots! Writer Hal Ericson said this about Hines, "Actor Johnny Hines entered films as a juvenile in 1913. After taking classes at CCNY, Hines launched his leading-man career as star of the "Torchy" short subject series in 1920. Throughout the 1920s, he headlined such breezy, popular feature comedies as Little Johnny Jones (1923), Conductor 1492 (1924), The Speed Spook (1924) and The Crackerjack (1925). He also wrote or co- wrote most of his vehicles. Described by one historian as the "Jack Lemmon of the silents," Hines wasn't quite as versatile as Lemmon, but his likeably extroverted screen personality was very much in the same vein. When talkies came in, Johnny Hines' starring career abruptly ended; he continued showing up in small character roles in films like Too Hot to Handle before retiring in the early 1940s."