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Edwardsville Intelligencer, Edwardsville, Illinois, May 4, 1914.

Caught in a Cabaret Scenes

& „Main Street, Edwardsville, Ill.,“ 1908, postcard,

pinterest, detail

& Caught in a Cabaret

(Keystone)

Reviewed by Peter Milne

Another rip-roaring, side-splitting comedy with

Charles Chaplin and the usual comical cast.

      A production that will surely keep one laughing until his

sides ache from the very beginning to the last scene.

      This time the ,Ham and‘ man in a Bowery cabaret poses

as the prime minister of Greenland and is invited out

in high society. He is finally shown up by a slumming party,

much to his sorrow.

(...) Motion Picture News, New York, May 9, 1914

& Caught in a Cabaret (Keystone),

April 27. – This is another two-reel comedy manufactured

in Mack Sennett‘s comical factory out in Californy

state. It caused so much laughter you couldn‘t hear what

the actors was talkin‘. Charles Chaplin was

the leading fun maker. Mabel Normand, with several of the actors finished the show artistically. Sennett must have been

behind the camera. Continuous laughter greeted the offering.

(...) Moving Picture World, May 9, 1914

& „Caught in a Cabaret“

Two-Reel Feature Produced by Mabel Normand

for the Keystone Company.

Released April 27.

The „Ham and –“    Charles Chaplin

The Girl                  Mabel Normand

Her Lover               Harry McCoy

The Sergeant         Roscoe Arbuckle

      Superlatives are dangerous epithets, especially when

dealing with pictures. For that reason it is unwise to call this the

funniest picture that has ever been produced, but it comes

mighty close to it. It is the usual Keystone type not overly refined

humor, but certainly successful.

      The „ham and“ man is given an hour off from his arduous

duties of hammering obnoxious customers on the head

with a bung starter, and walks along the street with his dachshund.

To a lady with whom he chances to pick an acquaintance

he hands his card – the ,Premier of Greenland.‘ Then he is obliged

to hurry back to the cabaret saloon and is given a fearful

,call down‘ for being so late. Another day he attends a party given

by the young girl, and, of course, under the disguise of his

title he wins the whole company. But suddenly the time has flown

and again he must hurry back to his cabaret duties. Now

the deposed lover of the girl has an inkling as to the truth of

affairs and proposes a slumming party and the whole

crowd visit the cabaret saloon. They surprise the ,ham and‘

Premier in his menial duties and a riot starts – a Keystone

riot, if you know what that means.

      Now, there is nothing there but the skeleton upon which

the actors have hung their best humor, but that is all

that is necessary. As the Premier, Charles Chaplin is inimitable.

Mabel Normand, besides acting and looking very pretty,

directed the play. The minor parts are well handled.         F.

(,,,) Dramatic Mirror, May 6, 1914

„Featuring Keystone Mabel“

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      Orpheum Theatre, Edwardsville.

      Caught in a Cabaret is

      released by Keystone April 27, 1914.

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