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Max Linder is quite an inimitable comedian. His insouciance, his gay, graceful light-heartedness, and his really droll mannerisms render him quite irresistible. One never grows tired of his irresponsible charm, because it is a purely personal charm quite unconnected with action or circumstances. He also knows how to be funny without being vulgar - an accomplishment as rare as it is desirable. He is, in short, an ideal picture player, a cosmopolitan comedian who appeals with equal force to the Englishman, the German, or the heathen Chinee. "An Escape of Gas" is as funny a piece of fooling as one could wish for. It is really funny. It does not rely on physical misfortunes, or bodily defects, or unnatural grotesquerie, for its humour, but simply on the funny side of real life. Max Linder is never extravagant; he is the most human comedian one knows. And it is because of his natural humanity, probably, that he is always so immediate and so universal a success. - The Bioscope, Jul. 11, 1912