The Christmas Party

Jackie Cooper wheedles his mother into letting his football team come over for a party. The numbers keep growing, so. he heads to the studio and talks Norma Shearer into wheedling Louis B. Mayer into letting them throw it at the studio. So there they are on Sound Stage 2, with Jimmy Durante as Santa, Wallace Beery as the chef, and other MGM players as waiters.

It's the showing off of MGM players that is the point of this short, too, and it's done with some good humor and technical panache, including a long tracking shot as Cooper rushes through the studio gates and over to Miss Shearer's dressing room. It's a very pleasant holiday short.