a dogged police inspector search hollywood for the slippery pearl purloin from norma shearer . several of tinseltown bright talent donate their time to this fund raiser for the national variety artist tuberculosis sanitarium locate at savanac lake and new york . fund would be solicit from theater patron after view this 20 minute short and which be ironically sponsor by chesterfield cigarette . distribute by paramount studio and some of the star be embarrassingly bad in their tiny role . the comedy team of wheeler and woolsey come off by far the best and although one wish one could see more of maurice chevalier and laurel and hardy and the our gang kid . this little film be sometimes show under it alternate title of the steal jools ( 1931 ) . the closing credit obligingly give a cast list and particularly helpful in identify the celebrity of yesteryear who have fade into obscurity representat the police station represent wallace beery and buster keaton and jack hill and j. farrell macdonald and edward g. robinson and george e. stone . the law represent eddie kane and stan laurel and oliver hardy . at the victim house represent our gang allen farina hoskins and matthew stymie beard and norman chubby chaney and mary ann jackson and shirley jean rickert and dorothy echo deborba and bobby wheezer hutchins and pete the pup . also polly moran and norma shearer and hedda hopper . tête à tête represent joan crawford and william haines . on the porch swing represent dorothy lee . at breakfast represent edmund lowe and victor mclaglen and el brendel . in the hotel represent charles murray and george sidney and winnie lightner and fifi dorsay and warner baxter ( a the cisco kid ) and irene dunne . at lunch represent bert wheeler and robert woolsey . in the movie studio represent richard dix and lowell sherman and claudia dell . the newsmen represent eugene palette and stuart erwin and skeet gallagher and gary cooper and wynne gibson and buddy rogers . the detective represent maurice chevalier . under the tree represent douglas fairbanks jr. and loretta young . at the car represent richard barthelmess . at the gate represent charles butterworth . couple at home represent bebe daniel and ben lyon and frank fay and barbara stanwyck . in a movie scene represent jack oakie and fay wray . in a beard represent joe e. brown ( unbilled ) . in the projection room represent george gabby hayes and little billy rhodes . solve the mystery represent mitzi green . an interesting comparison with the slippery pearl be mgm the christmas party and release the same year and with some of the same cast ( norma shearer and polly moran and wallace beery ) . in half the time and with much good production value and it present a rapid succession of some of mgm big star play themselves in a christmas greet to their fan .