Max E. Hayes

Then Came the Yawn

A rare and riotous parody of motion picture trailers.

Taxi Tangle

Caught in a 5th Avenue traffic jam, as they are riding in side-by-side taxicab and limousine, Jack Benny (Jack Benny) and Helen Hunt (Francetta Malloy), engage in conversation that leads to a hasty marriage. It isn't long before Benny is calling on the justice-of-peace again to sever the marriage.

What Price Pants

The vaudeville comedians Smith and Dale star in a clever satire on Prohibition and all its illegal shenanigans. Charlie Dale is the greedy owner of a sweatshop pants factory, and Joe Smith is his underpaid cutter. A letter arrives for Smith, informing him that he's about to receive an unexpected inheritance. Dale intercepts the letter, and offers Smith a partnership in the pants factory...

The African Dodger

A carnival barker convinces a rube to take part in the baseball pitching game.

Old Man Blues

A woman sundered from her sweetheart sings the title song as a duet with a personified Old Man Blues, in fog-shrouded woodland.

The Introduction of Mrs. Gibbs

Mrs. Gibbs is introduced to the mother of her daughter's fiance.