A gold-digger's husband fights back with etiquette lessons and one killer tuxedo.
Attracted by his wealth, avaricious Germaine marries D'Artois, then leaves him for a more sophisticated man. D'Artois retaliates by moving to the city and learning the proper social graces. His new life style proves to be too expensive for him, and at the end he is left with nothing but one suit of evening clothes and his now contrite wife.
Acting
Adolphe Menjou's dapper desperation — the original sad bachelor aesthetic.
Costume
That titular evening suit carries the whole third act.
Director
Luther Reed
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This captures peak Jazz Age anxiety about old money versus new money, with the nouveau riche desperately buying their way into legitimacy.
LOST FILM — no known print survives, so this entire summary exists only from contemporary reviews and studio records. You're imagining a ghost.
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