When Leon Errol forgets wife Dorothy's birthday, he claims her present is at the office and goes to get it. He buys a fur coat on the street that turns out to have been stolen from the couple that's just moved into the apartment across the hall. When he finds out, he spends the rest of this funny short trying to get rid of the coat before the police catch him with it.
This short is particularly funny because of the casting of the husband of the new couple. The husband is played by Lawrence Tierney; if you're wondering what an actor who specialized in playing psychopaths and seems to have lived his life that way is doing in a slapstick comedy, under the friendly sobriquet of "Larry".... well, he's a jealous husband, you see, and boy, does Leon's frantic mugging play well against him!
This short is particularly funny because of the casting of the husband of the new couple. The husband is played by Lawrence Tierney; if you're wondering what an actor who specialized in playing psychopaths and seems to have lived his life that way is doing in a slapstick comedy, under the friendly sobriquet of "Larry".... well, he's a jealous husband, you see, and boy, does Leon's frantic mugging play well against him!