School's Out

The schoolchildren lost their last teacher because she got married and quit her job. When the brother of their teacher Miss Crabtree comes to visit, the children mistake him for a suitor. The children tell abominable lies about Miss Crabtree to try to discourage the man. Meanwhile, one of the children is selling answers to the upcoming oral exam. Unfortunately for the students, the young entrepreneur used a book of minstrelsy and blackface as his source for the "answers".

Cast

Matthew Beard

as Hercules

Norman Chaney

as Chubby Chaney

Jackie Cooper

as Jackie Cooper

Dorothy DeBorba

as Dorothy

Allen 'Farina' Hoskins

as Farina

Bobby 'Wheezer' Hutchins

as Wheezer

June Marlowe

as Miss Crabtree

Creighton Hale

as Jack Crabtree

Mary Ann Jackson

as Mary Ann

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