Parlor Matches

Mrs. Seltoon has built a modest empire: two daughters successfully married off, each match more enviable than the last. Now her sights turn to niece Gail Laurence, a fresh college graduate ripe for similar arrangement. The candidate: Adrian Lee, a dashing movie star and cousin to one of the daughter's fiancés. There's only one problem, Adrian has little patience for the opposite sex, and when he encounters a young woman in the household, he assumes he finally understands why his cousin raved about the "charming Miss Laurence." The young woman, as it happens, is Abigail Mullen, the maid with a college education. While chaos brews, Gail makes a desperate gambit: she announces her engagement to Adrian Lee, hoping to dodge another unwelcome suitor. She has no idea he's the very man her aunt has been orchestrating. As the butler Jorkes maintains his dignity through the storm and every assumption crumbles under the weight of bad timing, the whole household careens toward a revelation that will either mend hearts or shatter the carefully constructed social order. A sparkling comedy of errors from 1910s America, where love, cinema, and matrimonial ambition collide.