ducatic-82290
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Similar to many Keystone films, and especially the Bangville Police. Most Sennett comedies were send ups or burlesques of someone or something. Here the cops, country people and even D.W. Griffith are being ridiculed. Mabel is clearly playing a Griffith heroine -- a beautiful girl, very pure, but a little bit silly. How often is Mabel depicted as someone who loves the most ridiculous of men -- she does so here, although it is usually the very odd Mack Sennett who gains her affections. Whether it is Mabel or some other actor that directs, the outcomes are always the same, as Sennett always supervised everything. There were no directors as we know them today.
From Moving Picture World July 26 1913:
"Mabel's lovers get into a running fight. There are touches of vulgarity in this film that might have been avoided."
No more is known of this picture.
Crazy stuff, but just what the cheap seats wanted at that time. Dixie Chene is pretty and cute as usual, and Charlie Murray goes down a treat with Polly Moran. Typically Sennett, in that someone has to pull a gun, and I wonder if Dixie was another one told by Sennett that he would make her into the next Mabel Normand. Her attempts at being a hair- tearing Mabel seem to fall flat. Only Mabel could be Mabel, and, as Chaplin discovered, only Ford Sterling could be Ford Sterling.