The reincarnation of Peck's Bad Boy, Huckleberry Finn, Topsy and all the rest of the most resourcefully, indefatigably violent mischief-makers in history, swooped into San Francisco yesterday at 9:30 a. m.
And here is a chronological account of what these noisome little rascals, known to filmdom as "Our Gang," did after that.
9:35 - One of them knocked a camera right off its stilts at the Third and Townsend station, then laughed as though he was being paid for it.
9:40 - All seven tried to pile into the same automobile with the brass band instead of riding in the luxuriously upholstered private cars assigned to them.
WHAM! ONE DOWN.
9:50 - Joe Cobb, who is so fat that he acts like a dish of jello, grabbed dainty little Jean Darling's rag doll and hurled it at an innocent bystander on Market street. Just one of his little peccadilloes.
10 - The entire gang burst into the office of Acting Mayor Warren Shannon at the City Hall, and without formality proceeded to find out what makes the political wheels go 'round.
10:01 - Jackie Condon, 8-year-old veteran of 68 movie comedies, tipped over a bottle of ink on the mayor's best mahogany desk.
"Our Gang" is here for its debut on the speaking stage today, when the seven conspirators begin a week's engagement at the Orpheum.
Those composing the "gang" are Joe "Fat" Cobb, Jackie Condon, Jean Darling, the "leading lady"; Aroma and Farina Hoskins, the pickaninnies; Harry Spear and "Turkey Egg" Smith.