Douglas Fairbanks suggested Buster Keaton for The Saphead's Bertie the Lamb, a role Fairbanks had played on stage and in an earlier screen version. Bertie, the delicate, pampered scion of The Wolf of Wall Street, tries in vain to become a Sportin' Life to win the love of The Modern Girl. And to prove himself to a rejecting father (Steamboat Bill, here we come), Bertie buys a rather expensive "seat" on the Stock Exchange. But he doesn't know one end of a cigar from the other, and his weakness is seized upon by the overgrown College boys of Wall Street who torment him. Peter Sellers-like, Bertie thinks it's fun. Buster is equally charming in Chinese silk pajamas or with a hot towel over his face. "He is one of the few comedians who has ever managed to be shy, stoic, and dashing at the same time" (Penelope Gilliat).