Although Sennett was near the end of his career, he found good use of the new medium of talking pictures for comedy, as the film demonstrates.
Fields plays a hot-tempered dentist who terrorizes his patients, who verbally/physically abuses his assistants and golfing-caddies alike, and whose daughter desires to marry an ice-delivery man.
Fields locks his daughter in her upstairs bedroom which is located above his dental office, where she proceeds to stamp her feet, causing plaster chunks to fall as he attempts to treat his patients.
Eventually the ice-delivery man procures a tall ladder and aids the dentist's daughter to escape from her dormitory window.
Fields observes the lovers just as they are prepared to run off, and – under pressure from the sizable crowd that has gathered at the foot of the ladder – grudgingly withdraws his opposition to the match.