An obnoxious city editor, an ambitious heiress and a phony butler make up the population of this journalism set screwball comedy that stars the over the top Edmund Lowe as the obnoxious city editor, future "Old Rose" ("Titanic") star Gloria Stuart as the ambitious heiress who takes over the newspaper after her father dies, and an outrageous Reginald Owen as the phony butler part of a phony butler racket. Together, they deliver the goods (and the daily news) in this B screwball comedy that has slipped through the cracks of classic cinema and is more than worthy of being rediscovered.
Stuart's character initially disguises herself as a cub reporter after overhearing Lowe's hysterical chauvenistic comments about what he assumes her to be. As a cub reporter, she works herself to nearly death by trying to both learn the business and teach Lowe a lesson. Lowe is hysterical as he dones a feminine voice in imitating what he believes Stuart to be. However the comic acting honors go to Owen who combines typical droll British attitudes with a streetwise nature, at one point pretending to be an Earl at Stuart's request, jitterbugging with Stuart's mother (Spring Byington). This leads to more complications that are both dangerous and funny.
Stuart's character initially disguises herself as a cub reporter after overhearing Lowe's hysterical chauvenistic comments about what he assumes her to be. As a cub reporter, she works herself to nearly death by trying to both learn the business and teach Lowe a lesson. Lowe is hysterical as he dones a feminine voice in imitating what he believes Stuart to be. However the comic acting honors go to Owen who combines typical droll British attitudes with a streetwise nature, at one point pretending to be an Earl at Stuart's request, jitterbugging with Stuart's mother (Spring Byington). This leads to more complications that are both dangerous and funny.