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At another of those colleges where there's no sign that anyone has ever seen the interior of a classroom, Gay Seabrook is the snooping writer on the college paper. When a statue meant to be unveiled in the morning goes missing, Miss Seabrook's sorority persuades a student to take its place. Several other groups do much the same.

Educational Pictures, besides the occasional picture that was, you know, educational, released a lot of good slapstick short comedies in the silent era under the supervision of producer Jack White. Like the other well-known producers of silent shorts -- Sennett, Roach, and Christie -- it struggled during the sound era, with production costs up and demand down. Eventually it was folded into 20th Century-Fox.

This one is fairly typical of their sound product, with a couple of good comedy sequences and a general air of trying but not quite succeeding in bringing slapstick into the sound era. With Toby Wing, Georgia O'Dell, and John T. Murray.

"Keyhole Katie" is a short comedy from Educational Pictures. Educational occasionally made really funny shorts, but generally I've found they were quite different and inferior to their strongest competitor, Hal Roach Studios.

Keyhole Katie is a college student who works for the school paper. Her stories are essentially scandal stories which imply all sorts of improprieties among the student body. One of the recipients of this attack is so angry, she and her friends decide to steal a statue about to be dedicated in front of Katie's sorority house. Hilarity does NOT ensue.

The film doesn't seem to know what to do and what they did do wasn't very funny. Having students dress up like statues and trying to pretend to be the stolen statue is pretty lame...and made worse by everyone in the film supposedly thinking it was a real statue (or statues). But worse is when the film just gives up on plot and the actors all have a giant brawl! Uggh.