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Although this film stars the early comedy star, Max Linder, he really is just one of three guys in this one and it's hard to say any one of them is THE star.

It begins with three men having a dinner with a lady. One by one, they excuse themselves from the meal and rush over to another woman to woo her. However, she has to hide them--first, from each other and later, from the other lady. However, instead of simply hiding them, the two women make sport of the men and the movie should have probably ended there--but it continued on for a bit--lessening the film's overall impact.

This film has a laugh or two. However, later Linder films mined the comedy much better and made the most of the situations. This one is only fair and shows his early, less refined, work.

Max Linder was the first international comedy superstar, but he got there by being in comedies that were better than the seemingly inevitable chases of the era. He he, his father, and his brother -- that is, actors playing those roles -- beg off from dinner with mama to go visit their girlfriend. Ye,s I said girlfriend, as it turn out to be the same woman for all three.

As other stars have discovered, the audiences come to see you, so giving the other performers a chance to shine is a bonus, not a threat.

An example of how little the success of a picture depends upon its actual plot and how much upon the acting and production is here provided. We do not remember ever having seen a film which is more funny throughout than this one, and yet its action is of the slightest. Mr. Max Linder takes part in it, which accounts for much of its humor, as may be imagined, and there are also two other principals (whose names, unfortunately, we do not know) equally as clever. The story tells of two sons and a father, all of whom are paying separate and clandestine attentions to the same girl. They arrive one after the other, and are secreted in various parts of the room, where they remain until all three suddenly peep out together. The final scene, where the elderly papa is enjoining a discreet silence upon his son, is, perhaps the best thing of the kind Messrs. Pathe have yet done. - The Bioscope, Oct. 21, 1909