Author Archive: Retro

Set in an early cinema house, this comic short illustrates the problems with the gals’ hats obscuring the movie patron’s line of vision.

A gardener is watering his flowers, when a mischievous boy sneaks up behind his back, and puts a foot on the water hose. The gardener is surprised, and looks into the nozzle to find out why the water has stopped coming. The boy lifts his foot from the hose, whereby the water squirts up in the gardener’s face. The gardener chases the boy, grips his ear, and slaps him in his buttocks. The boy runs away, and the gardener continues his watering.

A beautiful redhead (Myrna Dell) comes knocking on Leon’s door demanding the return of a compact dropped accidently in his pocket while they were dancing. But his wife (Dorothy Granger) has already discovered the compact and thinks Leon bought it as a gift for her. And then, to no great surprise, the redhead’s jealous husband makes an appearance. Leon, before he is cleared of any hanky-panky with the redhead, nets two black eyes.

Edgar tries his hand at making pies for Vivien’s charity bazaar with predictable results.

Leon’s beautiful blonde maid threatens to quit on the eve of a big party Leon is giving, and, to persuade her to stay, he gives her the fur coat belonging to his wife (Dorothy Granger). The latter views this action as a piece of bad news and Leon gets yet another object lesson regarding the exchange of one problem for a worse problem.

Edgar decides on a plan to get his freeloading slacker of a brother-in-law, who hasn’t worked in four years, to get a job by faking a heart attack.