Pop Goes the Easel (1935)

My Review

“Pop Goes the Easel” is a comedy short film featuring the Three Stooges fleeing a policeman into an artist studio where they are mistaken for students. The trio successfully evade the police but cause havoc in the studio. Director Del Lord puts together the usual wacky comedy featuring the Stooges, with help from the screenplay by Felix Adler.

The cast is headed by Moe Howard as Moe, Larry Fine as Larry, and Curley Howard as Curley, our three heroes. Others include Leo White, Bobby Burns, Billy Engle, Elinor Vanderveer as a dignified woman (a frequent victim of the Stooges), and Joan Howard Maurer as a girl playing hopscotch. Maurer was daughter of Moe Howard who later wrote several books on the Three Stooges. “Pop Goes the Easel” is one of 190 shorts the Three Stooges made for Columbia Pictures between 1934 and 1959.