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O'Hair, a small-town barber, has a field day
trying to ply his trade while walking a tightrope between his beastly wife
and his pretty manicurist. One of his customers, while getting a
shave, inquires why a little dog is sitting beside the chair begging.
"It's a funny thing about that dog," Fields muses, "one day I was shaving a
man and cut his ear off, and the dog got it. Been back here ever
since. Ah."
While going about his day, O'Hair must put
up with his wife's vegetarian problems, and relaxes by playing his bass
fiddle, which he affectionately calls Lena.
The story ends when he captures a bank
robber accidentally.
What was said about
THE BARBER SHOP:
Motion Picture Herald
"The comedic mannerisms of the veteran W.C. Fields, as he utilizes them
in his comedy, are still highly effective. Suffice it to say that an
audience at a Broadway house enjoyed him and the short to the full, being in a
state of almost continuous laughter. As the local barber with a henpecking
wife, Fields shaves his patrons with an iron hand, reduces a corpulent man to a
mere shadow in his steam room and paddles his huge bass violin in his idea of
music. When a bank robber walks into the shop, Fields leaves in a hurry,
then takes the credit for capturing him. He is wholly enjoyable, and this
yarn gives him ample opportunity to display his wares."
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