Barnum & Ringling, Inc.

The copy I saw was a nice amber-toned version with what claimed to be the original synchronized sound track and effects. Our Gang is in a hotel, where they have decided to set up a circus. This is the sort of thing they did throughout the years, resulting in the usual frenetic chaos. Doubtless the decision by series runner Bob McGowan to locate the action in a high-toned hotel seemed like a funny one. Animals running amok! I'm afraid that, despite my fondness for the Little Rascals, the set-up looks forced and un-natural, and the kids were always best just being natural, or at least looking natural. There's a word for that: verisimilitude. That's what's lacking here.

Jean Darling does some more of her poor-little-rich-girl shtick, where she's oh, so sweet, and oh, so annoying. Here she likes to stick pins into people. For those of you who like to play spot the star, hang around until the end for Oliver Hardy. It's the last time for a decade you'd see him without Stan Laurel' Other than that, it's an amusing entry in the series that you won't need to look at again