So You Want to Throw a Party

HIGHLY ENERGETIC, REALLY well paced and constructed in a sort of comically logic manner, we have just screened this one for the very first time. It is the team of Mr.George O'Hanlon and Miss Phyllis Coates used at their very best. Each is used in the best way and are on the screen together for just the right amount of time.

THE WRITER/DIRECTOR, Mr. Richard L. Bare, makes good use of the proved top laugh getting element of the building and returning to gags that are introduced early on; only to be revisited in incrementally funnier stages 2 or 3 times. The unraveling bow tie gag and his mixing up two very different lists is a good example of this category.

IT WAS APPLYING this category of gag as their stock in trade by the production and star of THE JACK BENNY PROGRAM for so many years.

SO MUCH OF the storyline and the subsequent laughs generated are the result of what we like to refer to as "the Old Switcheroo." This is the proper classification or both Joe's mixing up sleeping pills for aspirin, as well as his giving his secretary the wrong list of people to contact (one being the list that Alice wrote, the others being his creditors-that's business people he owes monthly payments to you, Schultz).

THERE IS EVEN a certain balance and symmetry in the short's wind-up. During the party, these "adults" played "Post Office", with poor Alice being the favourite of the guys (showing good taste). So it was that the movie's ending was reached by the delivery of a special delivery letter by a Letter Carrier (Ralph J. Sanford), who unceremoniously kisses Joe on his cheek!

DO YOU GET it, Schultz? No, no! It's not "Sealed With A Kiss!"