How to Handle Women
aka Fresh Every Hour/The Prince of Peanuts/The Prince of Knuts
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A comedy about a peanut-loving commercial artist (Tyron) who swaps places with Prince Hendryx of Volgaria (Keane) to help him to secure a bank loan in American, using his country’s peanut crop as collateral. Neither a critical nor financial success, the film went through several title changes. Originally announced as Meet the Prince, the producers also titled it Fresh Every Hour and The Prince of Peanuts before finally settling on How to Handle Women.
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Production company: Universal Studios
Director: William J. Craft
Original story by William J. Craft and Jack Foley.
Adapted for the screen by Jack Foley.
Story supervision: Joseph F. Poland
Cinematography: Albert Demond
Titles: Arthur Todd
Editor: Charles Craft
Running time: 60 minutes
Copyright number LP25372, June 12, 1928
Cast:
Glenn Tryon – Leonard Higgins
Marian Nixon – Beatrice Fairbanks
Raymond Keane – Prince Hendryx
Robert T. Hains – The Editor
Bull Montana – The Turk
Cesare Gravina – Tony
E.H. Herriman (George Herriman) – Himself
Leo White – The Secretary
Mario Carillo – Count Olff
Violet La Plante – The Stenographer
Bela Lugosi – A bodyguard
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Photoplay, December 1927
Everyone who crawls to fame in any line of endeavour seems to find his chance to play at least one role in the movies, it seems.
George Herriman, the Krazy Kat cartoonist, has been signed to interpret himself in the Marion Nixon-Glen Tryon newspaper picture, “Meet the Prince,” which William Kraft and Jack Foley wrote and are directing.
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Photoplay, June 1928
FRESH EVERY HOUR -Universal -Reviewed under the title of “The Prince of Peanuts.” Nutty farce with Glenn Tryon.
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Reading Eagle, November 4, 1928
The Park Theatre
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Le Film Complet Du Mardi, September 3, 1929
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Glen Tyron and Marian Nixon relax between scenes
