Max Takes a Bath

Max Linder, 1911, Pathé: a doctor orders a bath, Max buys a tub, cannot get it home, cannot fill it, cannot bathe in peace. One reel of a dandy at war with plumbing. Linder, already the first international comic star, treating a bathroom as a slapstick machine years before Chaplin's Mutuals. The tub is the costar. The neighbor is the chorus.