It's a dog's day afternoon at the talent scout's office. By the end of the day she slams the door on a man who shows up with a monkey. "Can I show you a trained monkey?" Slam! That's the tone of this MGM short with some dogs doing some amazing balancing acts--or jumping through a swinging trapeze, balancing on a wheel, balancing on a man's hand in acrobatic fashion. The dog handler himself had acrobatic training before becoming a dog trainer.

And finally, there's a stunt with a big black bear that has the talent scout fed up with all the nonsense.

Not one of the best Pete Smith specialties, but amusing enough.

. . . to see what turned out to be an UNDERWATER remake of ALIEN (with that vampire wench having Ripley's final-scene bikini briefs cut down to a thong for "Norah's" finale: No broad should ever allow herself to get nuked in a G-String!), I'd had enough of seeing human heads bitten off by monstrous critters for one day! However, I took a flier on watching HOLLYWOOD SCOUT. This title implies that it is a film about someone pitching a tent on the sidewalk to score tickets to an exclusive world film premier. (When you factor in preparing grub by the gutter and setting up a proper urban latrine, it seems like a well-prepared HOLLYWOOD SCOUT could rack up five or six merit badges in a single evening!) Imagine my chagrin (if not trauma), therefore, when the grizzly bear rips off its "trainer's" noggin about 7:17 into HOLLYWOOD SCOUT! Though this happened partially off-camera, one should probably forgive the hungry bruin for missing his mark. This beheading is far more realistic than anything to be found UNDERWATER. But just as the late Mr. Morrow was omitted from the TWILIGHT ZONE posters, the guy who lost his head here is totally missing from the HOLLYWOOD SCOUT credits! (He doesn't get so much as an "In Memoriam.")

A Smith named Pete narrates this short subject about animal acts. While there's a trained bear and a chimpanzee, it's mostly about dog acts: cute puppies, and a dog who leaps into a trapeze, and former acrobat Paul Sydell and his troupe of dogs, including him training them... except for the tail, untrainable as a cowlick.

Although there's a cute girl to distract the audience, and the slide whistle comes into play, this isn't one of Pete's better short subjects. His trademark snark is muted by the cuteness of it all. In addition, this one seems padded. All of Pete's shorts may be subject to that knock. They were intended to pad out a film program.show or what?