The film crew is getting ready to shoot Bobby Jones' talk about and demonstrate of practice shots, but it's Jimmy Cagney and Donald Cook who ask the intelligent questions, because director George Marshall is trying to keep Louise Fazenda quiet.
This series of shorts is inherently a dull affair for anyone who isn't enraptured by golf. I'm not, so the production's attempts to frame it deliberately as a short movie, with the boom microphone visible in the early shots, offers some amusement. That's also the purpose of the celebrity actors, including Miss Fazenda, whose career as a comedian extended back to 1913. She would retire in 1939, after more than 250 shorts and feature movies, and die in 1966, age 66.
This series of shorts is inherently a dull affair for anyone who isn't enraptured by golf. I'm not, so the production's attempts to frame it deliberately as a short movie, with the boom microphone visible in the early shots, offers some amusement. That's also the purpose of the celebrity actors, including Miss Fazenda, whose career as a comedian extended back to 1913. She would retire in 1939, after more than 250 shorts and feature movies, and die in 1966, age 66.