Louise Fazenda's father sends her to get the money to pay for their hash house's mortgage. Charlie Murray sells her a half interest in his touring vaudeville show with the cash.
It's an okay late Keystone two-reeler. It uses a lot of the cheap-and-disgusting-luncheon-counter gags in the first half, and the second half in made up mostly by the lousy-show gags. By this point, competitors in the comedy shorts business had caught up with Mack Sennett, usually by poaching his talent; Sennet's attitude was that he could always find and develop new talent, but it was he who had the brand name, and that was worth a good deal. Mack Sennett was the King of Comedy, so he combined with D.W. Griffith and William S. Hart to form Triangle. Keystone was a valuable brand, but within a year, better offers came along to Hart and Griffith, so Sennett abandoned Keystone and went on to set up a new studio under his own name.
It's an okay late Keystone two-reeler. It uses a lot of the cheap-and-disgusting-luncheon-counter gags in the first half, and the second half in made up mostly by the lousy-show gags. By this point, competitors in the comedy shorts business had caught up with Mack Sennett, usually by poaching his talent; Sennet's attitude was that he could always find and develop new talent, but it was he who had the brand name, and that was worth a good deal. Mack Sennett was the King of Comedy, so he combined with D.W. Griffith and William S. Hart to form Triangle. Keystone was a valuable brand, but within a year, better offers came along to Hart and Griffith, so Sennett abandoned Keystone and went on to set up a new studio under his own name.