Constance Bennett is most decidedly "after office hours" in this picture. Indeed only once is she to be found in office hours and then in the act of being fired from a newspaper. Tired of being merely sophisticated she graduates in "Verfalchung". Nevertheless the picture has a good plot. Clark Gable is the editorial detective and is even willing to allow murderer Bannister to knock him down in order to find out who killed cock-robin. No great discernment is required to discover the "murderee" who is obligingly killed in a convenient boat house. Stuart Irwin indulges in recitation in order to test the sound proofing of the boat-house walls and there is a delightful scene in a Hamburg stand with a proprietor who defends with incredible logic his fondness for police reports.

For those who like unusual sets "After Office Hours" will provide considerable entertainment. Not only is there a thoroughly nautical night club but there is a boat house that combines in its three rooms a boat house, garage, gymnasium, modernistic living room, bedroom and kitchen. All very delightful but uneconomic.

The vaudeville is up to standard but not above it. The seven Danwills are excellent gymnasts but most people have seen their act by this time at one theatre or another. One act gets laughs by beginning in and, more or less, with the audience.

If you like Constance Bennett or Clark Gable or light amusement you will enjoy this picture, it does not offend the Catholic League of Decency or the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.