What’s that?
Oh, it’s Joe E. Brown.
Roscoe Ates stutters his affirmation that he’s coming.
You know who they are. In the ‘30s, apparently only men could be in the same bed together.
Even Zeppo’s invited (with Groucho, Chico and Harpo).
Durante and, I guess, Marie Dressler.
She vants to be alone with her deco living room wall.
Haven’t a clue. Well, maybe I do. John D. Rockefeller? He throws coins onto the floor later in the cartoon.
Einstein is a genius. His phone is in his hair.
They loved Ghandi jokes in ‘30s cartoons. He’s on roller skates later in the cartoon.
World leaders. Wait! He’s inviting Mussolini?
Aw. Al Capone can’t make it.
It’s a shame this version of Scrappy's Party (1933) is so digitally fuzzy. There are people you can’t make out, and a nice line of them moving left, facing the camera, coming through Scrappy’s door. We get Will Rogers twirling a rope and Babe Ruth swinging a bat to “Hold That Tiger”.
Sid Marcus and Art Davis are the animators and Dick Huemer gets the story credit, though there really isn’t a story. Learn more about Scrappy at Harry McCracken’s site.
That is, indeed, John D. Rockefeller, Sr. playing golf; the giveaway is the very tight, mummy-like mouth. That also looks like the Prince of Wales (later Edward VIII) underneath Mussolini. Mussolini still had a fair amount of respect, at least up until the point of the invasion of Ethiopia, when world opinion began to shift against him. The fellow to the right of Mussolini might be General John Pershing. Yes, that's Marie Dressler with Durante; both were starring for MGM at the time. I think Adolphe Menjou might be in the group prancing in the door, just ahead of Einstein. Possibly George Bernard Shaw dancing with Durante.
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