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A Tailor Made Man (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). William Haines is one of those actors who have committed themselves to a specialty and are obliged to stick to it. The story, selected because it was in the Haines formula, is the old one about the pants presser who starts on his way to success by stealing a customer's dress suit and wearing it to a party. He is in love with his boss's daughter, Dorothy Jordan. When he has abruptly achieved eminence as manager of a department store, a job given him by a millionaire whom his social graces have captivated, matrons seek him as a husband for their debutante daughters, causing complications. Except for the fact that it is a talkie, and for some faintly amusing scenes at the party, A Tailor Made Man would appear to have been produced in 1915 or previously. Haines's impudence is more offensive than engaging, his triumphs are too easy, the dialog is badly stilted. Most gratifying shot: the master tailor dumping a bucketful of water on Haines from a second-story window.