Author Archive: Retro

Marcel Perez is a browbeaten husband whose wife keeps him around to catch mice. When she sends him out for groceries to feed her harridan friends, Perez falls in love with a poster of Dorothy Earle, who plays a nurse in a local leg show. They meet and that’s where the trouble starts.

Rufus T. Firefly is named president/dictator of bankrupt Freedonia and declares war on neighboring Sylvania over the love of wealthy Mrs. Teasdale.

A jealous wife is chasing her unfaithful husband during a parade, after he starts to flirt with a pretty woman.

A train stationmaster tangles with two tramps who have robbed him.

Smith casts his wife as a sluttish housewife who is mutilated by lighting her oven with paraffin.

When his wife threatens to leave him because of his notoriously bad temper, Edgar promises that there will be no more tantrums.

Two couples are at the seaside. A young man proposes to his gal. She accepts, and promptly tells him to re-tie his tie. He objects, so she returns the ring and walks away. An older couple has their own squabble: the middle-aged husband, who thinks himself a dandy, is happy to see his complaining wife roll away in a small, unattended carriage. He immediately approaches the younger woman. To make her ex-fiancé jealous, she takes up with the dandy and off they go to swim. What of the wife and the jilted beau? Can things be set right?

Henry Aldrich (James Lydon) tries to match his unfriendly teacher, Mr. Bradley (vaughan Glaser) with a wife. Henry hopes the teacher will become friendly enough to let him graduate with honors so he can use an inheritance for college.