He Loved the Ladies

The husband pretends to go to New York, but really remains in town and goes to a restaurant with a companion and some girls. Later his wife appears with a man. They find each other and a scene ensues. This is well photographed, but it is not very novel in plot and the humor is not very strong. - The Moving Picture World, September 26, 1914

Charley Murray wants to go out night clubbing with his pals, so he tells his wife, Alice Davenport, that he needs to go out of town on business. Guess who she and her brother, Edgar Kennedy, run into in a restaurant in this typical Keystone comedy?

Mr. Murray was one of Keystone's big stars before Chaplin and Arbuckle showed up, and his career as a comic actor lasted well into the 1930s, still playing stage Irishmen in the "Cohens and the Kelly's" series for Universal in much the same manner as he does here. Even the plot would remain in play in the 1930s, when Laurel & Hardy used it for BLOTTO and SONS OF THE DESERT. Nor did it originate at Keystone; I've seen it used in an Essanay comedy in 1911, and it probably had whiskers longer than Mr. Murray's then.

Cecile Arnold is very pretty and predatory as Mr. Murray's housemaid, with whom she flirts while his wife's back is turned.