Don't Weaken!

This is a very good Sennett comedy from when he was being distributed by Paramount -- not that there's much evidence, since Paramount never did much to preserve their own features, let alone the shorts that they 'merely' distributed.

Regardless, this is a very good one with two of Sennett's old pros Charlie Murray and Ford Sterling facing each other in a boxing match for the usual nonsensical reasons. Murray is recently rich because of inventing a new sort of fire extinguisher, and Sterling plays a dancing master -- and has the moves to match.

Earlier we get to see them doing some of their standard bits as Murray holds onto his lower-class habits, despite his social-climbing wife and Sterling is obnoxious to his pupils. The two of them really knew how to do these bits and journeyman director Mal St. Clair gives them their heads.