Les timidités de Rigadin

Charles Prince starred in over 250 of these Rigadin shorts for Pathé before 1920, and was generally looked on as the studio's second biggest comedic star after Max Linder. In this one, though, he spends most of the time being upstaged by Mistinguett, whose decades-long career as one of the biggest names in French music hall entertainment was just taking off at this point--it's a little harder showing off one's legs in a floor-length skirt, but she manages somehow.

When the cats out the mice will play. Here the servants of a big house go all-out and dress up in the rich peoples clothes and have themselves a grand party at their masters expense while they're away. But an unexpected guest turns up. Charles Prince, aka Rigadin. Unknowing to who everybody is and whats going on he joins the party and the otherwise shy Rigadin goes in full party mode.... when the family enters. Poor sod never knew what he did wrong when he got kicked out!