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tree, and ducks under the pendulum to get into the bedroom.
Here he presses a button to bring out a folding bed but it sticks halfway, then catching him in it, spins him into the closet. Several other attempts end in bringing the bed down on his head. Finally settled in it he leans over to pick up a cigarette, only to have the bed shed him and retire back into the wall.
At later attempts to mount it the bed bucks like a colt under his first saddle, pins him to the wall, then flops down and turns over. Suddenly the bed falls out right side up. Charlie dives into it only to have it collapse. Giving up, Charlie retires to the bathroom. After a mishap under the shower he finally succeeds in making his bed in the tub.
Throughout it all he maintains the utmost dignity. This draws more laughs than if he had played the hilarious drunk.
"The Count" marks a return to more standard comedy. An expansion of, but also, in a sense, a regression to earlier manners, this picture is marked by fast action, slapstick, and clever pantomime.
It begins with blundering Charlie being fired by his huge boss, a tailor. Finding a note from Count Broko regretting his inability to attend a reception given by Miss Moneybags, the tailor decides to impersonate the count. At the Moneybags mansion, he encounters Charlie who is visiting the servants' quarters. Riding up the dumbwaiter his head appears between two curtains and he is at first taken for a painting by his startled ex-boss. With the aid of some crushing nudges, against which Charlie uses a tall chair as a shield, the tailor persuades Charlie not to expose him and to join in the imposture by posing as his secretary.
Subsequent funny business includes Charlie's inter