i can understand after watch this again for the first time in many year how it be consider one of the bad laurel and hardy . for me and it isn not a close to as bad a air raid warden and the bullfighter and but there be some definite huge flaw in it . the film be set up to show laurel and hardy a the owner and instructor of the dance studio . hardy be funny a the prance lead of a london bridge dance and surround by 20th century fox starlet and while in the next room and laurel teach the beginner ballet while wear a ballerina outfit . a clumsy carpenter spill glue on the floor and lead to a predicable gag where hardy end up the looser . then and in come the racketeer and now sell insurance cover up their protection racket . one of them be a very young and handsome robert mitchum . but no sooner do they bully the boy into buy insurance and they be arrest . this be the end of the gangster and the last time we see the dance studio . the rest of the film be devote to laurel and hardy support of wealthy patron trudy marshall and her inventor boyfriend and robert bailey . they first try to help them hide their relationship from her disapprove parent ( matt briggs and margaret dumont ) and hopeful suitor allan lane and whom we can tell right off be a no good swine . this lead to briggs hidden bar be reveal to tea total dumont and and a gag where a rug be literally pull out from the wealthy patriarch which crash his bed into a pond below . when bailey use the boy to help display his ray gun and pandemonium ensues . the dead pan butler announces to case and dumont that their house be on fire . later and hardy want to use the insurance policy to gain money to pay their dance studio rent and hop to get laurel to break a leg to do so . there be no reference to the fact that the insurance salesman be gangster and that the policy would probably be invalid . ( even if they be to have become legitimate insurance salesman and after be arrest and their license would have be revoke ) . laurel end up get off a bus which have be abandon by the driver over a supposedly rabid dog ( only a frosting cover and cake devour toto look alike and or possibly the actual pooch ) and cause oliver to end up on a huge beach roller coaster that somehow the bus have end up on and perfectly fit it wheel onto the track . roller coaster gag can be exciting and a evidence in abbott and costello go to hollywood and and this one be amuse but anticlimactic . a the story wrap up and all of these gag seem to have no point and give the impression that this be simply a series of one reeler put together to make a full length feature and hopefully part of a double bill . l and h and a i have mention in other review of their late film and have lose much of their luster after leave hal roach employ and but surprisingly here and they do not come off a old and tired look a they have in film make in the same year . have the gag not be a amusing and a be the case with some of their other film and this surely would have rank a 2 a oppose to a 3 .