This short to benefit a TB hospital sponsored by a cigarette company should be a good indication that things are going to be slightly off-beat. The lighting is somewhat inconsistent, a problem with a lot of early films up through the 1930s.
This short has brief appearances by major stars (either at the time, recent past, or soon to be) - Wallace Beery, Buster Keaton, Edward G. Robinson, Laurel & Hardy, the Little Rascals, Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Wiliam Haines (career about to end in pictures due to his being an openly gay man which was not approved by Louis B. Meyer), Warner Baxter, Irene Dunn, Gary Cooper, Maurice Chevalier, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Loretta Young, Bebe Daniels, Barbara Stanwyck, Jack Oakie, Fay Wray, and Gabby Hayes. There's also some actors who weren't as big, such as Wheeler & Woolsey - a comedy team that had one of the better bits in a diner, Richard Dix, Richard Barthelmess, Charles Butterworth, Eugene Palette, and Mitzi Green, who played many young girl parts, such as Becky Thatcher to Jackie Coogan's Tom Sawyer in a couple of films.
There's not much of a plot - just a theft of Norma Shearer's jewels by Edward G. Robinson and George E. Stone, which are then stolen by Mitzi Green. Inspector Eddie Kane is driven to the scene of the crime by Laurel & Hardy and basically then has a 1 or 2 sentence dialog with almost all of the other actors.
This short has brief appearances by major stars (either at the time, recent past, or soon to be) - Wallace Beery, Buster Keaton, Edward G. Robinson, Laurel & Hardy, the Little Rascals, Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Wiliam Haines (career about to end in pictures due to his being an openly gay man which was not approved by Louis B. Meyer), Warner Baxter, Irene Dunn, Gary Cooper, Maurice Chevalier, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Loretta Young, Bebe Daniels, Barbara Stanwyck, Jack Oakie, Fay Wray, and Gabby Hayes. There's also some actors who weren't as big, such as Wheeler & Woolsey - a comedy team that had one of the better bits in a diner, Richard Dix, Richard Barthelmess, Charles Butterworth, Eugene Palette, and Mitzi Green, who played many young girl parts, such as Becky Thatcher to Jackie Coogan's Tom Sawyer in a couple of films.
There's not much of a plot - just a theft of Norma Shearer's jewels by Edward G. Robinson and George E. Stone, which are then stolen by Mitzi Green. Inspector Eddie Kane is driven to the scene of the crime by Laurel & Hardy and basically then has a 1 or 2 sentence dialog with almost all of the other actors.