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"Modern Times" 259
forms a faun-like dance, upsets the fences with a longstemmed oil can, pulls switches at random. He tears through the factory and into the street tightening everything in sight that looks like a nut: the nose of the foreman, fire plugs, and finally strategically placed bodice buttons on a woman's dress; and ends up in a psychiatric ward.
Cured of his nervous breakdown — but jobless — he leaves the hospital to start life anew, only to face the nerve-wracking unemployment problem. After working a few short hours on his first job in months, a strike is called. Police forbid the wrorkers to congregate. As one policeman gets tough with the protesting Charlie, he backs away upon the end of a board which tips up a brick that conks the cop. Stealing a ride on the back of an explosives truck, Charlie is jolted off, together with its red danger flag. Picking it up and waving it to attract the truck driver's attention, he suddenly finds himself at the head of a communist demonstration. Mistaken as the leader of the Reds, he is arrested and tossed into the patrol wagon.
In prison, Charlie inadvertently salts his food with "joy powder." The drug imparts superman strength to him. He stops a jail break and is rewarded with a cell fixed up with "all the comforts of home." These include a formal tea at which his gargling noises and other "table manners" disconcert the prim old ladies. To his dismay, he is pardoned just as he was settling down to a life of ease.
Meanwhile, at the water front, "the gamin," who had stolen some bread and bananas, escapes from the juvenile officers who take her younger orphan sisters into custody.
Charlie's next job is in a shipyard where he "launches" and sinks an unfinished ship. Fired, he decides to return to the security of the jail. He runs into the gamin and