Ray Cooke's employer needs to raise $100,000 to retain control of his company. He hopes to get them from his cousins. When the old ladies show up, they are sent to a restaurant with office manager Franklin Pangborn, his daughter, Dorothy Dix, and Cooke. Cooke and Miss Dix are having a dull time, but the restaurant has a supply of laughing gas, as restaurants apparently did back then, and its release causes the older people to become very silly.
It's up to Cooke to maintain control and shepherd the ladies back home, which results in some low-pressure hijinks. Some nice gag sequences are scattered throughout the short, but it's not a terribly good short comedy.
For some reason, the TV print I looked at changed the title to TORCHY RAISES THE AUNTIES, which is more accurate, but not as clever.
It's up to Cooke to maintain control and shepherd the ladies back home, which results in some low-pressure hijinks. Some nice gag sequences are scattered throughout the short, but it's not a terribly good short comedy.
For some reason, the TV print I looked at changed the title to TORCHY RAISES THE AUNTIES, which is more accurate, but not as clever.