Alexander Andrews (Walter Connolly)’s Timeline and Summary
- Andrews holds his daughter hostage on a private cruise ship that he says is leaving for South America.
- Having already kidnapped her from the marriage ceremony, Andrews demands that Ellie annul her marriage to King Westley.
- When Ellie jumps ship and swims to shore, Andrews sends detectives after her.
- Andrews keeps telling the detectives to search high and low, and the camera cuts to him delivering these instructions, periodically interrupting the main love story.
- Andrews is determined to keep Ellie from marrying King, but eventually he decides that he'd rather have a son-in-law he can't stand than lose his daughter forever. So he announces in the papers that he's changed his mind.
- When Ellie still doesn't return home, Andrews tells King to verify the announcement at a press conference.
- Andrews is relieved when Ellie finally returns home, but he realizes that something's not right.
- Andrews has a heart-to-heart with his daughter and learns that she's in love with Peter Warne.
- Andrews shows Ellie a letter he's received from Peter, requesting a meeting about money.
- Both father and daughter assume that this means Peter's only after money, but it turns out that Peter only wants $39.60—what he's owed for the expenses from the trip.
- Andrews realizes that Peter's really in love and tries to convince Ellie not to go through with her marriage to King.
- Andrews is delighted when Ellie runs away, leaving King at the altar.
- Andrews pays off King, compensating him for his loss of Ellie and rewarding him for cooperating with the annulment. So Papa Andrews gets his way, after all: The marriage between his daughter and the awful King is annulled.
- Andrews sends a telegram to his new son-in-law, confirming that the annulment has gone through and announcing that the "Walls of Jericho" can come crashing down.