Harry Booker has just taken over as mayor and has upset all the political norms: he won't take bribes. Meanwhile, campaign manager Charles Murray phones Louise Fazenda to tell her he won't be marrying her, but Booker's daughter, Mary Thurman. Add in some silk-hatted politicos, some bomb-wielding Italian types, and Jasper the Diving Horse, and you have a typically chaotic and funny late Keystone comedy.
At least I think it's more chaotic than usual. The copy I looked at was based on a reissue from 1920, long after Sennett had left the organization and taken hiseditors with him. I strongly suspect that the decline in Keystones in this period is a matter of later reediting. However, there's no way to be certain. It may well be that with the rise of serious competition in the slapstick field starting in 1914, Sennett's staff thought it necessary to make things ever wilder.
At least I think it's more chaotic than usual. The copy I looked at was based on a reissue from 1920, long after Sennett had left the organization and taken hiseditors with him. I strongly suspect that the decline in Keystones in this period is a matter of later reediting. However, there's no way to be certain. It may well be that with the rise of serious competition in the slapstick field starting in 1914, Sennett's staff thought it necessary to make things ever wilder.
