The cast list here only has 4 people. Burns and Allen, Donald Meek and Chester Clute, but an additional to mother there's also a taxi driver and a male sales clerk who sells Chester Clute a bunch of mystery novels that he promises has at least 20 murders on every page. Then Burns comes in and gets Gracie, who had just put on her hat and coat and grabbed an umbrella to walk through a curtain to go into the book store where she works. then, she calls her mother let her know that she is just got into work okay. The wackiness starts there and continues with Gracie trying to sell Burns some classic books with hysterical descriptions, some with some very funny sight gags.
There's very little sensability in some of the way the gags are presented, but you can't help but laugh at the zaniness of the whole thing. Veteran character actor Donald Meek is very funny as Gracie's equally daffy father. At just under 10 minutes, this has more than 20 laughs per minute, and it's fun to walk into this alternate universe where everybody seems to be like a character stuck in Gracie's mind. Some of the comedy is a bit dated and some audiences will roll their eyes or grown, but I think the majority of the people who watch this will find it a delight from start to finish.
There's very little sensability in some of the way the gags are presented, but you can't help but laugh at the zaniness of the whole thing. Veteran character actor Donald Meek is very funny as Gracie's equally daffy father. At just under 10 minutes, this has more than 20 laughs per minute, and it's fun to walk into this alternate universe where everybody seems to be like a character stuck in Gracie's mind. Some of the comedy is a bit dated and some audiences will roll their eyes or grown, but I think the majority of the people who watch this will find it a delight from start to finish.