poker at eight be real vintage charley chase . in this short from his series at hal roch studios the comedian manages to make a witty and complicate farce of sort fit comfortably into two reel . one of his specialty be take an outlandish premise and elaborate his day to day consequence to make hilarious social comedy . here he a husband who normally under his wife thumb but who think he develop the ability to hypnotize people . it turn out his wife only pretend to be hypnotize into be a good fellow and make him jealous and seem to head out for a night on the town while he make the titular poker game . the gag construction and plot twist be very funny here my favorite moment involve charley have to carry a zither around with him for no good reason . constance bergen do a very good job a charley wife while she seem to have appear in little more than a couple of other chase short and a few small role in western and but here she very funny make the transition between stern housewife and stern housewife pretend to be good time girl . this a good example of the kind of sophisticated comedy charley chase could produce while still engage in the kind of visual humor that have him hide from police officer in a bright raincoat on a clear night . it also a very funny watch .