18 minutes of pre-Code chaos: boy meets girl, boy dresses as girl, everyone gets expelled.
The love-struck couple Mitzi and Hal are expelled from school after a prom, where Hal stayed behind and hid in a closet and was found dressed as a girl.
Stunts
Hal Le Roy's acrobatic tap defies gravity and logic.
Costume
The drag reveal is somehow both innocent and scandalous.
Acting
Mitzi Mayfair's deadpan delivery sells the absurdity.
Director
Joseph Henabery
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This short squeaked through before the 1934 Production Code crackdown, when Hollywood could still wink at gender play and 'immorality' without moralizing endings.
Hal Le Roy was a Broadway sensation whose rubber-legged dancing was so distinctive he played himself in multiple films; this is one of his rare surviving screen performances.
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