Rips and Rushes

Overview

While Larry Semon does not star in Rips and Rushes, its confident gags and frenetic pace suggest his touch. In the knockabout one-reeler set in a dance studio, three suitors compete for the girl. James Aubrey, the actor playing the father’s preferred suitor, may look like a Chaplin imitator, but he came by those skills honorably, born like Chaplin in Britain and likewise coming to the U.S. with Fred Karno’s troupe. Nevertheless it’s Alice Mann, with her wacky headdress and knowing glance, who steals the show. Suffice it to say that many vases are broken and pants ripped before she escapes out the window with the handsomest of the beaus.

Cast

Hughie Mack

Vernon Rastle

Jimmy Aubrey

His Lordship

Alice Mann

Girlie

John Costello

Girlie's Old Man

Earl Montgomery

Pietro Aramondo

Murray Simberg

Eddie Dunn

Joe Rock

Ann Brody

Italian woman