This is one of those shorts that seems to really get around, but it's by far not recommended. By this late date, Hamilton was looking very thin, old and worn out. He gamely goes through his paces, but there's none of the enthusiasm he had before. The short is clearly designed to show off Marjorie and Dorothy, though outside of the gown Dorothy wears, the gals have little of interest to offer either. The editing is bad, for instance, Hamilton is in charge of a toy department full of nasty kids. after one dart throwing gag, we don't go back to that. He's seen in a close-up talking on a phone wearing a toy Indian chief war bonnet, implying he's doing some undignified game playing, but there are no kids seen or heard. One of Hamilton's fall back gags over the years would be crazy contortions from a fish or squirrel down his pants. Here, a frog gets in there, and, plop, he comes out the leg with no discomfort at all.
Pretty average unfunny going for Sennett at the twilight of his career. The man couldn't come up with anything but the oldest gags. They couldn't even steal gags well anymore either. The scene where Hamilton and Marjorie communicate with music sheet song titles is ineptly swiped from Roach's "Let's Do Things" with Thelma Todd from the year before.
Pretty average unfunny going for Sennett at the twilight of his career. The man couldn't come up with anything but the oldest gags. They couldn't even steal gags well anymore either. The scene where Hamilton and Marjorie communicate with music sheet song titles is ineptly swiped from Roach's "Let's Do Things" with Thelma Todd from the year before.