Based on his novel 'The Pinnacle' by Erich Stroheim (as he was then billed), not a lot really happens during the preliminaries as third-billed Stroheim eyes up the heroine, who is presumably drawn to the attention he lavishes upon her rather than any charm or sexual magnetism he displays.
Fay Holderness as The 'Vamp' Waitress later played Mrs Oliver Hardy in 'Hog Wild' (1930), placing her ahead of Mae Busch as the earliest Stroheim veteran to work with Laurel & Hardy.
Fay Holderness as The 'Vamp' Waitress later played Mrs Oliver Hardy in 'Hog Wild' (1930), placing her ahead of Mae Busch as the earliest Stroheim veteran to work with Laurel & Hardy.