Clara Kimball Young began making movies at the Vitagraph studios in Brooklyn in 1909. At about the same time, one of the neighborhood boys, named Moses Harry Horwitz, began hanging around the studio where he would perform errands. That boy later went by the stage name Moe Howard.
During shooting, a small container of red ants in Moe Howard's pocket broke. All through the scene he was scratching, squirming and slapping himself on the neck, face and seat of his pants. "It was very funny," Moe recalled, "to everyone but me".
At the beginning of this short, the secretary overhears The Three Stooges talking about a "new deal" and mistakenly thinks they are referring to politics, not a card game. This is because from 1933-39 President Franklin D. Roosevelt's plan to help the US recover from the Great Depression was commonly known as The New Deal. This short was released in 1936.
When Moe asks Curley (later on spelled Curly) what school he went to, Curly says "Oxford". Moe says he better go back to high shoes. That's because Oxfords are low-cut shoes.
Production #218.
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