Three Men in a Boat a typical boating holiday of the time in a Thames camping skiff. This was just after commercial boat traffic on the Upper Thames had died out, replaced by the 1880s craze for boating as a leisure activity. Following the overwhelming success of "Three Men in a Boat", Jerome later published a sequel, about a cycling tour in Germany, titled "Three Men on the Bummel" (also known as "Three Men on Wheels", 1900). The story begins by introducing George, Harris, Jerome (always referred to as "J."), and Jerome's dog, named Montmorency. The men are spending an evening in J.'s room, smoking
What Do Men Want? titles with Weber, Paramount declined to distribute "What Do Men Want?", possibly due to its subject matter involving an unwed mother and suicide. As part of the deal to distribute Weber's film "The Blot" (1921), F.B. Warren also released "What Do Men Want?" After the film's premiere at Manhattan's Lyric Theatre on November 13, 1921, "The New York Times", while praising Weber for her casting and the technical aspects of the film, and also the performance of Claire Windsor, dismissed the film as a "simplified sermon" that provided "pat answers" which ignored "the real facts of life", which it considers