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the Chaplin-Keystone films (1914) 43
a mountain-climbing expedition, slips and is lost in a snow crevasse.
Charlie and Mabel are at their ease on a park bench, Charlie reading his paper, Mabel toying with a lorgnette, when Charlie sees the headline, "Farmer's Daughter Inherits Millions." As he steals away, Mabel "feels" his absence. Turning corners sharply at right angles, Charlie hurries to the restaurant, knocking people over in his haste to get the startled Tillie to a minister. After some fancy fumbling, including the substitution of a telephone book for the Bible, he succeeds in marrying the reluctant girl. Returning to the restaurant, Tillie becomes ponderously kittenish, pounds her husband with kisses, and yanks him inside. When lawyers come to inform her that she has inherited three million dollars, she staggers, then pausing with tongue in cheek, looks significantly at her wedding ring. Charlie smiles sheepishly; Tillie gives him a scolding, but when he puts on a weeping act forgives him and bear-hugs him.
The newlyweds go off to a rococo mansion, their new home. In the overdecorated hall, butlers with powdered wigs stand at attention. Charlie hangs his hat and cane on the stiff arm of one of them while Tillie slouches against another. Neither of the flunkies so much as twitches. One of these human statues comes to life, at last, when Charlie flicks cigarette ashes into his face. Tillie scolds both butlers, but when she and Charlie attempt a dignified exit, Charlie spoils it by tripping on a tiger rug. The complications multiply when Mabel secures a job as a maid in order to be near her former sweetheart.
An elaborate ball given to mark the entrance of the couple into high society provides opportunities for hilarious travesty. Two solo dancers perform the tango a la Irene and Vernon Castle, the leading stars of the time in ballroom dancing turns. Tillie in a fantastic "harem