[2] Chaplin plays a waiter who fakes being the Prime Minister of Greenland to impress a girl.

Mabel Normand wrote and directed comedies before Chaplin and mentored her older co-star.

The Moving Picture World's review said, "This is another two-reel comedy manufactured in Mack Sennett's comical factory out in Californy State [sic].

"[3] A reviewer for the New York Dramatic Mirror wrote, "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.