This Keystone film has Fatty Arbuckle meeting Mabel Normand at a fair. Mabel is frustrated and/or bored with her parents and heads to a fair. Meanwhile Fatty Arbuckle and his pal Edgar Kennedy are looking for girls at the fair. Each insults one of Mabel's parents. Fatty eventually meets up with Mabel; they buy ice cream, feed a bear, and go for a ride on a giant slide. Fatty of course runs into trouble with a cop, which is a standard occurrence in these films. Some very funny moments are marred by the man in black-face scene. It wasn't often that the context of the times clashed with the content of a film in Fatty's or Mabel's films, but when it did happen (as it did here), everything came to a screeching halt. ** of 4 stars.
Review of Mabel's Wilful Way
