if ( a i just point out in the goat ) keaton be follow the tradition of the comic find themselves at odds with the law and this langdon short ( the last released before he do tramp and tramp and tramp ) be base on another comic ploy be marry to a shrewish spouse and and try to get away for some secret two time date . laurel and hardy do this in several film and as do field and and chaplin . i have a problem with it why do these character always marry such nasty woman . and there be an interesting sociological side issue why do not you find female comic marry to male counterpart to these shrew . i can not recall any and except in a carol burnett skit and where the two nasty member of two couple discover that they prefer have someone give it back as good a they get ( a kind of mutual sado masochism and but also reassurance that their not marry to a namby pamby type ) . a for the fact that the comic do marry shrew and i suppose one can imagine they get what they deserve . or do they . ollie really deserve a wife who throw pot and dish at him . yeah he go to that convention in son of the desert that ruin her plan and but he want to get some private time there be nothing suggest he and stan cheat on their wife . actually he be cream by mae busch because he lie to her while stan collapse and tell the truth to his wife . here harry wife ( alice ward ) be show at the start talk to her mother about how she keep him under strict control . we see harry at his job ( it be saturday morning and and the job end at noon for the rest of the weekend this be before the idea of a five day a week and 40 hour a week job in industry ) . he work in a foundry where he hit red hot metal into shape ( an early joke about langdon he be a small and light man and not the muscular type to swing a sledge hammer ) . he just miss his streetcar try to give a man a light . he call home to explain thing and get an earful from the missus for be two minute late . on the way home harry meet his pal steve ( vernon dent ) who have meet two nice and sweet girl who would just love to have a date . harry be hesitant but agree to it after talk to the girl ( he agree to pay for the hot dog for the foursome he have a 1926 silver half dollar in his pocket ) . but his plan seem derail when his wife discover his hidden cache of coin . he keep it hidden under the living room rug and and find it by walk along the edge of the rug . but his wife spy on him and and confiscate all of it . later she overhear him talk to himself and berate her . in contempt she give him back a dime and say he can treat his date to a soda . but harry have a second cache of coin and and dress up for the date and go out . he and dent be apparently late and and dent blame harry and but harry try to make it up to him represent he produce two prostitute . they get into a quarrel when dent ( wisely ) say they be not the type of girl he would term a nice . eventually the girl do show up and the date begin . but soon harry be hide in the rumble seat and a his wife drive past in her roadster and and the girl boy friend turn up angry at their two rival . the short work well and be amuse and and give one a good idea of the persona that harry langdon develop in his brief stardom a a comic master . he be constantly put upon by others . he miss his streetcar because some stranger keep ask for a smoke and a light and and in the end the stranger get his own . the nice girl who be harry date have a little dog who chase him away . he rest between two car that both start drive away and he end up wrap around a pole . it certainly demonstrate that langdon have his screen persona down pat by the time that he make his feature . if only he could have keep the complex whole together beyond those three first feature .