Withstanding the political correctness of some modern day viewers, this film is humourous in it's own right. It has the kind of low brow comedy that would have been featured in vaudeville to the derisive laughter of the audience. Vaudeville would have only been a few years old when this film was made, so the idea of an ugly person man/or woman having bad luck in every step of his life would have been sort of fresh. The star in this short is probably a man in drag rather than a real woman. He/She is showcased to be so ugly or unattractive that pictures fall off the wall, the still camera won't work and blows up, the mirror he looks into shatters which is not very well done as the surviving film is dark. The last gag of the mirror shattering was used famously in the 1960s "The Munsters" tv show classic. Every time Herman Munster looked at a mirror reflection of himself, the mirror would shatter. So it's good to see where the origins of this gag came from or at least one of it's earliest incarnations on film.
