Oh, Professor Behave!

Many of Leon Errol's shorts for RKO fall into a very familiar pattern. Leon has a very jealous wife....and she is a bit of a harpy. But Leon IS a bad husband and usually is chasing other women! Here, the same old formula is here again...but in this case, Leon IS trying to be a good husband...at least for a while.

When the story begins, Mrs. Errol (Dorothy Granger) is on a vacation alone. However, she decides to return home early when she gets word her no-good husband is carousing. Sure enough, he's having a party and the wife stomps off...vowing to divorce him. Shortly after this, Leon is in the shower when guest arrives. It seems that Professor James was referred to him because she needed a place to stay. The butler tells Leon this...but not that the professor is a sexy lady. He says to let her in and give her a room...and the butler complies.

Soon the wife arrives back home. She's changes her mind about the divorce and Leon promises to be good. But soon he learns that the visitor is NOT a man and he and the butler run about the place trying to hide the lady from the very suspicious wife. Will they succeed in keeping the visitor from the wife?

This is a very, very typical short film...enjoyable but offering little in the way of originality for the series. Worth seeing but awfully familiar.

By the way, if the dog, Daisy, looks familiar that's because it's the same dog from the long-running Blondie and Dagwood series.

When she discovers Leon Errol has been throwing parties with young women in her absence, wife Dorothy Granger walks out. Meanwhile, Leon is asked to put up a friend of a friend, a professor, unaware that it's a pretty young girl. When Dorothy returns and Leon discovers who his guest is, he tries to hide her and hire a substitute off the street, all to the usual chaotic results in a Leon Errol short.

For some reason, Daisy, the dog actor from the BLONDIE series over at Columbia makes a guest appearance in this episode of Errol's long-running series of RKO shorts. I'm not sure why, but the pooch does its usual competent and amusing tricks.