“there is action to out action vaudeville” but “legitimate comedy” not slapstick. Skit about a man who suspects his friend is impersonating his stepmother to play a trick on him. He “commits assault and battery upon the real step mother under the impression that she is a masquerader”
Miss Barbaretto should not “overwork” her face “a little facial expression goes a long way and a lot becomes interminable”.
Fiske plays a “tough”; Miss McDonough is “horribly affected as the society matron”; she is “entirely off-key”
head balancing on the trapeze
Girard imitates an Irish policeman
baby act
his “trademark” is that he falls off his stool.
