Fifty Million Husbands

Christine Maple is out tending her ill mother, so husband Charley Chase intends to spend the evening home reading. There's a knock at the door, and in comes Tiny Sandford, who begins to rearrange his furniture, followed by soon-to-be-ex-wife Ruth Hiatt, who begins breaking bric-a-brac. By the time Miss Maple comes home, ready for a divorce of her own, it's a free-for-all and officer Edgar Kennedy can't make heads nor tails of the situation.

There are lots of funny bits in this Chase short subject, but Miss Maple is not a practiced comedian; nor is there the tight story line typical of Chase's shorts that makes sense of the situations. Still, there's always Edgar Kennedy's slow burn to amuse the watcher, and an unusually large speaking part for Tiny Sandford, a Roach regular who spent much of his screen time on the Lot of Fun playing cops in bit parts, even if his roles outside might expand to Porthos in Fairbanks' THE IRON MASK.