Vim goes the flirting-in-the-park route with this one-reel comedy. Actually, it starts out with Trixie Gale -- with a question-mark-shaped beauty mark on her cheek -- attracting the usual types, wends its way through a farce as her suitors hide from her father in a French farce manner and then fight for her hand, ending with her running away with Oliver Hardy.
The only reason this picture survives at all is that Hardy is in it and it's interesting that he has a lot of his mannerisms this early, sped up enormously. Although the emphasis is on the gags rather than the plot, it is clearly modeled on the Arbuckle-Normand comedies from Keystone that were so popular at the time. Neither lead has the presence of their models, but of course things would change for Hardy.
The only reason this picture survives at all is that Hardy is in it and it's interesting that he has a lot of his mannerisms this early, sped up enormously. Although the emphasis is on the gags rather than the plot, it is clearly modeled on the Arbuckle-Normand comedies from Keystone that were so popular at the time. Neither lead has the presence of their models, but of course things would change for Hardy.