Charlie Chaplin plays Mr. Pest and Mr. Rowdy in this Essanay short. Attending a variety show Pest is on the main floor, Rowdy up with the great unwashed in the balcony. Pest dominates the picture with Charlie still doing his inebriated Tramp routine of past shorts with Rowdy spelling him. The acts and the orchestra make for decent foils and there's plenty of pie throwing and Charlie pratfalls, but it's a rather lengthy Chaplin short that soon becomes repetitive with the better material exhausted mid-way.
Review of A Night in the Show
