
A blundering rookie reporter runs into some unexpected difficulty when he is assigned to cover the police beat.
Cast

William Tracy
Dorian 'Dodo' Doubleday

Joe Sawyer
Officer Ames

Emory Parnell
Winfield 'Windy' Blake

Betty Compson
Martha Blake

Joan Woodbury
Bubbles LaRue

Paul Stanton
Attorney Martin Stafford

Beverly Lloyd
Penny Blake (as Beverly Loyd)

Patti Morgan
Ester Dexter

Thomas E. Jackson
Chief McClure (as Thomas Jackson)

Harold Goodwin
Reporter with Cigars (uncredited)

Anthony Warde
Police Reporter (uncredited)
Margaret Roach
Vera (uncredited)

Stanley Prager
Cartoonist (uncredited)

Eddie Dunn
Pit Violinist (uncredited)

Harry Cheshire
Judge J.J. Bellinger (uncredited)

Charles Middleton
Reporter (uncredited)

Eddie Parks
Freddie, News Photographer (uncredited)

Ben Welden
Rankin (uncredited)

Gertrude Astor
Woman with Dog (uncredited)

Theodore Lorch
Audience Member (uncredited)
Sam Harris
Audience Member (uncredited)
Phil Bloom
Audience Member (uncredited)

Nell Craig
Society Editor (uncredited)

Charles Sullivan
Sgt. Harris (uncredited)

Bob Reeves
Stagehand (uncredited)

Garry Owen
Sports Editor (uncredited)

Fred Aldrich
Hood at Burlesque House (uncredited)

Chuck Hamilton
Hood at Burlesque House (uncredited)

Dudley Dickerson
Elevator Operator (uncredited)
Crew

Fred Guiol
Director, Producer
George Carleton Brown
Writer
Edward E. Seabrook
Writer
Art Seid
Editor
John W. Boyle
Director of Photography
James Lane
Assistant Director
Hal Roach, Jr.
Executive Producer
Loretta Francel
Hairstylist
Burris Grimwood
Makeup Artist
William Randall Sr.
Sound

Heinz Roemheld
Music
William Stevens
Set Decoration
Sidney S. Van Keuren
Production Manager
Jerome Pycha Jr.
Art Direction
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