A Mutual two-reeler and one of the best of Chaplin's 1916 run. Charlie
is a tailor's apprentice who burns a count's trousers with a hot iron
and gets fired; the tailor then sneaks off to impersonate the count at
a society party, and Charlie turns up in the same borrowed identity.
Eric Campbell, Chaplin's towering half-courted villain of the Mutual
years, plays the rival suitor, and Edna Purviance is the object of
everyone's attention. The party sequence — Charlie dancing, wolfing
food off other people's plates, and dodging Campbell — is some of the
purest slapstick he ever filmed. As a work published before 1930, it
is in the public domain in the United States.
Comedy · Silent
