Henry B. Walthall was a respected member of D.W. Griffith's stock company, best remembered now for his bravura performance in Griffith's THE BIRTH OF A NATION. According to legend, his career collapsed with the coming of sound, but like most of Griffith's company, he was a stage actor, and he flourished in the sound era as a supporting actor.In this, his first sound film, he plays in a little vaudeville skit which concerns itself with a man, once powerful, who has fallen on hard times and, now desperate, comes to an old acquaintance who is a senator for help. But turn about is fair play.... especially with the kicker in this short subject.The piece is very stagy, but the conceit that ends the piece is amusing. Worthwhile as a piece of film history, many thanks to the Vitaphone Project -- check their website for their good work -- for restoring it.