Andy Clyde wants to go to the prize fight, so he tells his boss his mother-in-law has died. It's a twenty-minute remake of W.C. Fields' THE MAN ON THE FLYING TRAPEZE, written by the other movie's writer, Clyde Bruckman, and it makes a typically good short for Andy.
Mr. Clyde's movie career went back to Sennett in the silent era, where he wound up specializing in older men. He kept the character throughout his movie career and aged into it in a career that encompassed more than 300 movies, and the second-longest running series for Columbia's short comedy division -- yes, they produced more than Three Stooges movies.
This movie has lots of good gags, many of them directly borrowed from the W.C. Fields movie, but of others of older provenance. Keep an eye out for other old-time comic actors, including Snub Pollard and Fred Kelsey.
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