Hold Your Temper

Edgar comes home from a business trip to discover that his wife — Irene Ryan in this outing — is leaving him because he socked Jack Rice in the jaw. He promises never to lose his temper again. So, for the rest of this funny two-reel comedy, the audience gets to watch Rice and Dot Farley try to get him to do so.

Miss Ryan is best remembered from a quarter century later, when she played Granny on THE BEVERLY HILLBILLIES, but she is fine here. Edgar is his usual, funny, slow-burning Common Man; he had been the star of this series of short comedies at RKO since 1933,and would remain s, between supporting roles in features, until his death in 1948. Here, besides his usual tormentors, there are a couple of malicious clocks that refuse to strike the correct number of hours.