This Hal Roach comedy short, Arbor Day, is the one hundred forty-fifth entry in the "Our Gang/Little Rascals" series and the fifty-seventh talkie. It's also the last regular two-reeler with only a special one to come a couple of years later. There's an Arbor Day pageant at school with Spanky among the reluctant participants. He tried to skip school but the truant officer caught him. He also "caught" a couple of midgets-or little people-dressed as children in order to spend some time outside of their side show for a few hours so now they're forced to attend the performance. I'll stop there and just say this was quite an amusing and funny enough short what with Alfalfa's hilarious warbling of the song "Trees" and those midgets' performance of a song one didn't hear at school in those times! So on that note, that's a recommendation of Arbor Day. P.S. This marked the return of Olive and George Brasno who both previously appeared in Shrimps for a Day, as well as of Hattie McDaniel who reprises her role as Buckwheat's mom from Anniversary Trouble. And this marked the first appearance of Rosina Lawrence in the series.
