Should Men Walk Home?

Just three years after making this two reel comedy Mabel Normand was dead at the age of 37; but although visibly older and gaunter than in her babyfat days with Sennett she here makes a lithe and attractive flapper equipped with a delirious range of comical facial expressions and still very nimble on her feet, frequently resembling Harry Langdon in drag.

An enthusiastic supporting cast is headed by Eugene Palette as a house detective wearing a small moustache and a sheriff's badge that make him resemble Fred Kelsey; while in one sequence Mabel's partner in crime Creighton Hale seems genuinely unable to keep a straight face. The icing on the cake is a priceless scene between Mabel and a boyish-looking Oliver Hardy in which to his mounting panic she keeps deliberately spilling his drink.