Acting
Mack Sennett's waiter energy is pure proto-Keaton chaos.
Direction
Griffith experimenting with comedy before he got SERIOUS.
Director
D.W. Griffith
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was shot at Biograph's New York studio before Griffith fled to California and invented Hollywood proper.
Florence Lawrence was cinema's first named star—'The Biograph Girl'—yet remained uncredited here, typical of the era's manufactured anonymity.
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