A social celebrity

"Max Haber, a smalltown barber, is the pride of his father, Johann, who owns an antiquated barbershop. Max adores Kitty Laverne, the manicurist, who loves him but aspires to be a dancer and leaves for New York, hoping that he will follow in pursuit of better things. Mrs. Jackson-Greer, a New York Society matron, has occasion to note Max fashioning the hair of a town girl and induces him to come to New York and pose as a French count. There he meets April, Mrs.' King's niece, and loses his heart to her, as well as to Kitty, now a showgirl.

At the theater where Kitty is appearing Max is the best dressed man in April's party, but later at a nightclub Kitty exposes him, and he is deserted by his society friends. Disillusioned, Max returns home at the request of his father. Kitty follows, realizing that he needs her"

VARIETY. (...) As to the tale the film unwinds it matters not much what it is. Menjou is cast as the best barber in Huntington, L. I. He and his old dad are the only barbers there, from the picture. Pop Haber (mr. Conklin) after opening up in the morning shaves himself with a safety razor, which goes for a wow laugh in the shop. Kitty Laverne (Miss Brooks) acts as cashier. She and the barber’s son are in love. She, however, decries the boy’s lack of ambition and to stir this leaves Huntington and the barber shop flat in New York.It takes but a week for the boy to follow her. He can’t locate her. She is working in a night club while he is clipping in a Broadwy barbershop.
          Comes a call for a barber in the home of one of the men about town. As Max looks the part of the society boys decide to take him along as a count and foist (folst) him  on their hostess that evening. They tog him out in dress clothes and the daughter of the hostess falls for him. But the next evening, in the same night club where Kitty is working, the barber is exposed for what he s, and his social  lady friends leave him.
          Nothing left but to return to Huntington, expecially as Pop has come on the scene and informed the boy that business has been ruined by his departure. Kitty follows, like the brave little thing that she is, to be shown with him and a bouncing baby in the final shot. (...)

NEW YORK TIMES. Mr. Menjou’s part is that of Max Haben, the son of John Haben. Mr. Conklin officiates in the role fo the father, who, when nobody is looking, deceitfully uses a safety razor to shave himself. Max’s ability as a barber is not confined to male chins and haircuts, for he also is known as the best ‘bobber’ in town. Before the young man leaves for Gotham, the shop shelves are filled with shaving mugs, but soon after his departure these steady customers dwindle grasually until the old barber gazes mournfully at a solitary mug, and that is his own. (...) Soon after the prleiminary scene, A Mrs. Jackson-Greer is introduced. She is so struck by the way Max trims her hair that she suggests that he ought to go to New York and open a ‘beauty shop’. She even volunteers to help him. Now Max is very much in love with Kitty Laverne, who had left his father’s employ to go to New York. Therefore he decides to throw in his lot with others in a big cit; but soon after his arrival he is forced to take employment in a busy barber shop. He is sent one day to shave one of the guests in a room of a hotel, and this customer is surprised to see much a handsome barber, and he comment upon Max’s appearance while the barber is preparing his razor.
        A telephone message from a hostess announces to the man who is about to be shaved that Count Havare de Maxim cannot be present at a dinner the woman is giving, and the disappointed social light wants somebody urgently to take the Count’s place. Hence Max is selected to go to the gathering arrayed in impeccable evening clothes topped off with a fur coat. He is introduced as a Count and instantly becomes very popular with the other guests. Unfortunately, Mrs. Jackson-Greer appears upon the scene, but after frowns and grimaces from Max she shakes his hand and informs her hostess that she has known the ‘Cunt’ since he was quite a little ‘shaver’. (...)
          There are acouple of captions in French, supposed to be addressed to Max when he is posing as a French count. He looks dumbfonded when a Frenchman says to him: ‘Qu’en pensez vous de la crise financière, Monsieur?’ (...)