The Waiters’ Ball

Fatty and Al are competing to take the same girl to the Waiters’ Ball, but the formal dress requirement presents a problem: Fatty owns a tuxedo, but Al does not.

Fatty and Al are competing to take the same girl to the Waiters’ Ball, but the formal dress requirement presents a problem: Fatty owns a tuxedo, but Al does not.

Luke, a mechanic, stands in for a famous violinist. At first, his bad manners and rough behavior are accepted as the eccentricities of genius. Then matters get out of hand.

Luke is a movie actor who falls asleep and dreams that he and his fellow actors are school children again.

Luke is a bellboy at a fancy club.

Roscoe flirts with a girl in the park. Later he takes his wife and mother-in-law to the movies only to see his flirtation showing on the screen.

Hi-jinx at a fire in a Chinese laundry.

A counterfeit count is aided in his courtship of the heroine by her father who is overwhelmed by his “title.”

Luke happens into a spiritualist’s shop where he is smitten by her daughter. He decides to stick around and take a job there.

A Hal Roach film directed by , released in 1917.

A Ford Sterling film directed by , released in 1916.