Chaplin forgoes the Tramp in Tango Tangles (directed by Keystone boss Mack Sennett), portraying instead a valorous fine-faced drunk, the extinct sort of chap who, over-age, leapt at the chance of enlistment / Arbuckle plays a rotund fellow who "likes the hat-check girl" / He picks a man up bodily like Moses ready to smash the Commandments and shakes out the guy's party-guts / At the ball arc-lamps blast full wattage, the kind of you-are-there feeling such lighting arouses — "all this happened" / Magic '14-window / Space-time's a hell of a thing / Especially at Keystone Studios / Where every angle of a ballroom's a different set / And the eyelines are glorious
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