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"City Lights" 229
lie surreptitiously disposing of unwanted liquor down his vest. It is brought to an end by a return of the millionaire's depressive phase. Grabbing a gun, he puts it to his temple, but this time the tramp's frantic suasions work. The millionaire decides to live and "burn up the town!"
In a crowded night club, the drunken pair cause mirthful havoc. The Tramp's old nemesis, the slippery floor, gets in its dirty work. Mistaking the menu for a hymn book, Charlie stands up to sing. The millionaire, mistaking his napkin for a shirt tail, stuffs it into his trousers. As they finally settle down Charlie keeps lighting the cigar his friend keeps waving in his face. The confusion ends with the finally lighted cigar tossed on a lady's seat and Charlie charging gallantly to the rescue, with squirts from a seltzer bottle on her smouldering rear.
In the next mess Charlie mixes ends of paper streamers with his spaghetti, munching ceilingward to encompass all the coils of one of the streamers. Ever chivalrous, he then goes to the rescue of a girl apparently undergoing mayhem in an apache dance number.
Inflamed by the shimmying movements of a girl near him, Charlie grabs a passing middle-aged woman and whirls her around. When her husband cuts in, Charlie changes to a waiter carrying a tray full of dishes. As the waiter falls (with the dishes intact), Charlie sinks back exhausted.
"Early morning — homeward bound." Driving back, bumping over curbstones and dodging vehicles, the little tramp admires the car and is made a gift of it.
At the mansion door the tramp spies the flower girl on her way to work. The millionaire gives him money to buy some of her flowers and Charlie purchases her whole day's stock. Then he drives her home in his new car. On the steps he kisses her hand and asks if he may see her home again. "Whenever you wish, sir." After she