Hay Foot, Straw Foot

"He had a name like a cheap cigarette and a line of second hand tricks that carried the smoke of ages."

Silent military romantic love triangle comedy (based on the story by Julien Josephson), about a soldier named Ulysses S. Grant Briggs, who comes from the south and enlists in the army. He and his best friend, who is from the north, compete for a beautiful stage actress, and risks court-martial to win her.