It’s interesting how sound handcuffs the director here. Maybe it just causes the director to get completely out of the way and let the novelty hold sway. In one way the sound, the increased presence of the performer, raises this above those much derided early films of theatrical people doing theatrical things on a theatrical stage. In another way that sound seems to smother any ambition or imagination that Guy might otherwise have had. So we’re left with a kind of silly looking bit of probably naughtiness.