Kendall McComas

While staging a play, Spanky finds his father's hiding place for the family "fortune." (imdb)

Tired of going to school, Breezy comes up with a plan to get himself expelled. (imdb)

Mickey, Stinky, and Billy all try to compete in an Ape Man contest.

The second short from the "Mickey McGuire" film series. The series was based on Fontaine Fox's popular comic strip "Toonerville Trolley". "Mickey McGuire" was a popular rival to Hal Roach's Our Gang series. Perhaps the most notable note about the series is that it launched Mickey Rooney's film career. The film follows Mickey McGuire (Rooney) and his pals as they start a "Pet Xchange". (youtube.com)

It's the first day back at school for Mickey and the gang, which means plenty of pain for the schoolteacher. But things really heat up when a fire breaks out in the schoolhouse.

Mickey Rooney's second sound film. In it, we find Mickey and the gang putting on their own school performance.

An early sound short, where Mickey and the gang put on another show.

Lowe plays Chatrand the Great, a magician with great hypnotic and magical powers. During his evening performance at an upscale theater, a murder occurs. A hand wearing a sinister spider ring raises a revolver, the lights go out, and a shot rings out! When the lights come on, the body of a patron is lying on the floor, dying. Who is the mysterious killer? What is the strange secret of Lowe's clairvoyant, amnesia-plagued assistant?

Dickie throws a birthday party to try to raise money to buy his mother a birthday present. (imdb)

The gang, while playing firemen, come upon a real fire. (imdb)

Mickey Rooney -- credited as McGuire, as he would be through the run of the series -- inducts a new member into the gang, tries to put little brother Billy Barty to bed for a nap, and wins a basketball game against Stinky Davis' team in this episode of the series.

Part of the Mickey McGuire short series starring Mickey McGuire. Currently only reel #2 has been found.