In 1929, when Pathé had ceased releasing the Roach and Sennett shorts, they hired George LeMaire to produce/direct a series of talking comedies. LeMaire was a stage personality and sometime recording star, and supposedly was a comic genius. This one, late in the series, gives cause to dispute that status.
The patter is loaded with cringingly obvious setups. When first is mentioned, in a room where wallpaper is being hung, that one of the difficulties will be to "Hang the Border", instantly, you know that someone's going to hear it as "Hang the Boarder". And the phrase is so funny, it's said many times. The slapstick is painfully slow and has no surprises. When, viz a viz, a Bridge game has a fat gal express hope for "a grand slam", of course, she will get some sort of assault. It comes in the form of flying wallpaper paste. There's tons of it being thrown on people and things with graceless, break-up filled camera work. Incompetent paper hanger stories had been done for a long time, and nothing new happens here, perhaps this might be the first talkie version, but I don't know. The pointless inclusion of a gross female impersonator makes for a strange time.
LeMaire might have gotten better, but he died young, at 45, and in fact this film was released the day he died.