Ernesto Vaser is lecturing Marcel Perez at the dinner table. Perez needs to settle down, and stop going out every night to have dinner and Lord knows what with loose women! When Mama nods off and the house quiets down, Perez dons his evening clothes to meet a cutie-pie and go to a restaurant where they cater to such goings-on. And so does Vaser.
It's another well executed Robinet comedy, with Vaser -- who also had his own series of comedies as 'Fricot' -- playing a supporting role. Perez often directed his own comedies, Vaser's comedies and anything else that came to hand. He was a man of many parts in comedy; the reasons he is not better remembered is the triumph of American slapstick and its leading proponents, Sennett and Chaplin, and the fact that every time Perez changed studio or country, he changed his name, his life story, and occasionally his wife. He came to America during the First World War and began to make a name for himself in his latest incarnation, but ill health put an end to that venture, and time erased his forgotten comedies. Fortunately film historians Steve Massa and Ben Model have been working to reverse time's depredations, and comedies like this have been turning up on the Eye Institute site on YouTube.
It's another well executed Robinet comedy, with Vaser -- who also had his own series of comedies as 'Fricot' -- playing a supporting role. Perez often directed his own comedies, Vaser's comedies and anything else that came to hand. He was a man of many parts in comedy; the reasons he is not better remembered is the triumph of American slapstick and its leading proponents, Sennett and Chaplin, and the fact that every time Perez changed studio or country, he changed his name, his life story, and occasionally his wife. He came to America during the First World War and began to make a name for himself in his latest incarnation, but ill health put an end to that venture, and time erased his forgotten comedies. Fortunately film historians Steve Massa and Ben Model have been working to reverse time's depredations, and comedies like this have been turning up on the Eye Institute site on YouTube.
