Century of Slapstick #55: His Trysting Place
Today marks the 100th anniversary of the Keystone comedy His Trysting Place. Nowadays it’s marketed as a Charlie Chaplin comedy, but what it really is, is an ensemble comedy starring Chaplin, Mabel Normand, Mack Swain and Phyllis Allen. It’s a farce in the French style. A girl writes a romantic letter to her beau, addressing him […]