Preceded by short:Dangerous Females (William Watson, U.S., 1929). Dressler and fellow Mack Sennett comic Polly Moran team up for this classic comedy 2-reeler having to do with a murderer on the prowl. "Truly hysterical-too short!" (Kennedy) Written by Florence Ryerson, Colin Clements. (c. 20 mins, B&W, 16mm, From David Shepard/Film Preservation Associates)The character actress Dressler is in her element as Emma, housekeeper/superwoman for a widower and his family. When she marries her employer and subsequently inherits his money, Emma is aggressively rejected by the children she has raised. This underrated film made two years before Dressler's death was written for her by her friend Frances Marion. It "contains a mix of sentiment and slapstick more in service to the star than to story plausibility," writes Kennedy. "Emma is foremost a monument to her skill-it is sentimental but not maudlin, funny but not vulger, dramatic but not turgid."