Grave Hayes wants her son, Peter Lind Hayes, to buckle down and study hard in college for a better life, but he's more interested in practicing his maniacal laugh. To pay for schooling, Miss Hayes is saving her grouch bag and working as a maid in a snooty Long Island home. It all ends in a variety show.
It's certainly not the best of the innumerable short subjects in the 1930s in which the purpose was to showcase some talent from the rapidly vanishing vaudeville stage. By the time this one came out, the framing device was considered as importent as the talent, and the choice of Miss Hayes, a real vaudeville trouper, and her son is not a bad one. Miss Hayes would eventually open her own Las Vegas casino, continue to act in the occasional movie, and survive until 1989 and age 93. Mr. Hay would last until 1998 and age 82.