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The setting is a front door farmyard with chickens, birds, pigs, and hay. Slapstick comedy in the Keystone style.
"Hiram."
Fred J. Ardath, as Hiram, the busy little man of all work on the farm, had the audience screaming with his fast moving low comedy. "Hiram" makes louder laughter than anything else just now in vaudeville, excepting the Keystone comic reels.
Something of a story is tried for through this, and the plot is barely there, but it doesn't need much, for the two pigs alone help the fun along at opportune moments. A piece of this sort would have failed with but a sprinkling of the slam bang thing. Mr. Ardath has gone in for it on the wholesale order, and through that succeeds. Ardath and his company of six will probably secure many return dates at Hammerstein's. He personally does very well in the Patsy Pollivar way, and Charles Conklin as the Sheriff is an able assistance.
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Variety, 37:6 (01/9/1915)