With Shemp Howard and Harry Gribbon heading the bill, the picture is virtually a non stop series of gags and one liners like the one in my summary above. The painters are hired by Don Tomkins and get this - Jimmy Stewart! - to impersonate them as art students in Paris so the pair can run off to Woonsocket. Sure would like to know what the attraction there was.
Jimmy Stewart was the major surprise here in his very first, but uncredited screen appearance. He and Tomkins aren't on screen very long, not that it's necessary because the joke is on 'Mater' and 'Pater' who are footing the bill for the Paris gig that Shemp and Harry are taking advantage of. I got a kick out of the business card stating their address as '5 Rue de Valle' and 'Whitewashing Our Specialty'.
The ruse would have been more of a success if Shemp hadn't screwed up by sending a batch of pre-written letters home to the elder Burton's. Instead of posting them a week at a time, he sent them all at once and blew the young siblings' cover. But not before we get to see that 'Ooh La La' singer make Howard squirm in his seat, not to mention him getting manhandled by her in a masochistic version of a French Apache Dance. That's one thing I have to admit, I learned the term by being an avid movie buff here on IMDb, which proves to me that watching this stuff doesn't have to be a passive hobby.
Jimmy Stewart was the major surprise here in his very first, but uncredited screen appearance. He and Tomkins aren't on screen very long, not that it's necessary because the joke is on 'Mater' and 'Pater' who are footing the bill for the Paris gig that Shemp and Harry are taking advantage of. I got a kick out of the business card stating their address as '5 Rue de Valle' and 'Whitewashing Our Specialty'.
The ruse would have been more of a success if Shemp hadn't screwed up by sending a batch of pre-written letters home to the elder Burton's. Instead of posting them a week at a time, he sent them all at once and blew the young siblings' cover. But not before we get to see that 'Ooh La La' singer make Howard squirm in his seat, not to mention him getting manhandled by her in a masochistic version of a French Apache Dance. That's one thing I have to admit, I learned the term by being an avid movie buff here on IMDb, which proves to me that watching this stuff doesn't have to be a passive hobby.