by Hal Erickson
synopsis
"Wacky" is probably the most conservative adjective one could apply to the two-reel Keystone comedy A Bath House Blunder. Mae Busch does the bathing-beauty bit as a shapely swimming instructor, while Joseph Belmont and Don Likes are cast as Mae's boyfriends. The fly in the ointment is Amazonian Blanche Payson, who is jealous of Mae and does her utmost to make the girl's life miserable. In real life, the 6'1" Payson was a Los Angeles policewoman, whose job it was to keep the Keystone comedians far, far away from the studio's bathing belles. The film's soggy "chase" climax was later excerpted in several silent-movie compilations.
