- After causing restaurant chaos at work, a bumbling waiter tears up the local roller rink with his skating.
- After amusements working in a restaurant, Charlie uses his lunch break to go roller skating. Mr. Stout makes advances toward the unwilling Edna (whose father and Mrs. Stout had earlier carried on in the restaurant). After a roller skate ballet, Charlie (now as Sir Cecil Seltzer) is invited to a party at Edna's. All the "couples", including a new partner for Mr. Stout. show up.—Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>
- To earn a living, poor Charlie works as a waiter at an upscale restaurant--a hard and demanding job, especially when one has to deal with an ever-watching maître d', and the irascible customer, Mr Stout. As one little mishap paves the way for another, Charlie takes a lunch break and heads over to the local roller skating rink, only to stumble into the charming roller-skater, Edna, who has been having a problem with a persistent admirer--Mr Stout. To express her gratitude, Edna invites him to an elegant skating party; however, Charlie, now posing as the noble Sir Cecil Seltzer, seems to know a lot about the Stouts' shenanigans. But, can Charlie keep a secret?—Nick Riganas
- In the Oskaspeil Café Chaplin continually shows his disregard for the head chef by throwing him down and knocking him about unmercifully. Chaplin manages to get himself involved in a dozen difficult situations from which he extricates himself with his usual ingenuity. At one moment he appears to be cornered by an indignant husband with whose wife he has been conducting a flagrant flirtation, but the next instant the indignant hubby is hors du combat. Then there is always Edna to be looked out for. Charlie's sweetheart resents, as always, his flirtatious attitude toward her sex in general and pursues him like a faithful but indignant fiancée, mollified as usual after the offender has been brought to book by his magnetic smile and bland, childlike surrender to her demands. Edan's flirtation with "old man" Campbell, a giddy old chap of the skating rialto, is countered by Chaplin with an affair involving Campbell's wife, which in the long run gets him mobbed. Probably the best comedy in the play is that presented in Chaplin's efforts as a waiter. His progress between the tables with a tray is one long succession of disasters in which soup invades the decolletage of feminine diners and full dress shirts become vivid futurist fantasies done to tomato sauce and mustard pickles. Everybody knows that Chaplin's feet are the funniest facts about Chaplin. Well, Charlie's feet with roller-skates on them are funnier feet than ever. The skates Chaplin has to wear in order to make them fit his exaggerated shoes, have to be at least eight sizes too big for Charlie, but that doesn't make a bit of difference to so expert a skater as he.—Moving Picture World synopsis
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