Father-in-law Billy Franey discovers the letter that Edgar has written a matrimonial agency to marry him off and slips Edgar's picture in it. When Minerva Urecal (sporting an Italian accent) shows up, wife Vivien Oakland resists attempts to get her out of the house so she can confront the interloper and her husband.
This is a subpar entry in the funny series of "Common Man" short comedies that Kennedy starred in for RKO from 1932 until his death in 1948. Although the makeup of his household varied (usually it consisted of wife Florence Lake, mother-in-law Dot Farley and brother-in-law Jack Rice), the combination with Oakland and Franey showed up in 29 of more than a hundred shorts in the series.
This is a subpar entry in the funny series of "Common Man" short comedies that Kennedy starred in for RKO from 1932 until his death in 1948. Although the makeup of his household varied (usually it consisted of wife Florence Lake, mother-in-law Dot Farley and brother-in-law Jack Rice), the combination with Oakland and Franey showed up in 29 of more than a hundred shorts in the series.
