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Released October 03, 1926
Featuring Ted Healy (Solo)
Hal Roach
18 min. (Short Subject)

Pinkham University's (P.U.) "old cockroach" of a Dean (Jimmy Finlayson) blames coed Helene's campus frock shop for the student girls' behavior, and tells her to leave. Helene's boyfriend Napoleon Fizz (Ted Healy), the Dean's cottage caretaker and perpetual student after 11 years in the freshman class, has invented a medicinal plaster that restores youth. After the Dean accidentally sits on the concoction, he reverts to the mentality of a coed-chasing college lad, to the University President's shock. When the Dean serenades the girls at the sorority house, Helene decides to disguise Napoleon as the house matron, and catch the Dean in a compromising photograph to be used for blackmail when he regains his senses. But the arrival of the real matron, the University President and faculty, turns the evening into a farce of mistaken identity.

Stan Laurel, one year prior to teaming with Oliver Hardy to create one of the greatest comedy teams in film history, directed Stooges' straightman Ted Healy in this amusing vehicle, starring Jimmy Finlayson.

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Hal Roach
Producer

Stan Laurel
Director

Carl Harbaugh
Screenplay

James Parrott
Screenplay

H. M. Walker
Screenplay

Harry W. Gerstad
Photography

Len Powers
Assistant Cameraman

Harry W. Lieb
Assistant Film Editor

William H. Terhune
Assistant Film Editor

Sherbourne Shields
Assistant Director

E. H. Young
Animator


















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