A Rag Doll Romance

Little Doreen Turner lives with her grandmother and a dog. Granny takes in washing. Young Lawrence Licalzi lives rough with his uncle Jack Cooper and Jocko the monkey. The kids meet, the animals squabble and according to the notes, there's a happy ending, although it's missing on the print I saw.

It's one of the William Campbell comedies distributed by Educational. Campbel did mostly animal comedies. He's best known for directing the Snooky the Chimpanzee comedies, in which Snooky, usually dressed in overalls, held long conversations with his young co-stars and saved the day in some typical plot -- Master Lizalzi talks over a situation with the monkey in this one. Mr. Cooper has one good gag, but like the other Campbell comedies, I find this one to be rather poor and speculate that their apparent popularity (he made them from 1916-1922) lay in the fact that there were cute animals on the screen. Although Jocko had a 10-year career, largely with Fox comedies, neither animal seemed to do any particularly interesting tricks.

If you check the credits on the IMDb, you'll see that the dog is credited at Pal. Pal was a handsome collie. This dog is a brindle bulldog.