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The most famous comic team of the mid-1910s was Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle and Mabel Normand. They made many dozens of pictures for the Keystone studios, and this one -- shot in part at the Republic Theater in Los Angeles -- relied more on farce and less on their usual slapstick. Fatty and Mabel play a married couple and they attend the opera with Mabel's mother in tow. In the opposite box, Fatty spies his old pal Gassy Gotrox (Ford Sterling) with Maud Brightlights (Ethel Madison) and another young lovely. Fatty is taken with Maud and forgets all about his pretty wife (and her mother). He wanders over to Gotrox's box and steals Maud away to a lobster house. The angry Gotrox tattles to Mabel, who heads over to the lobster house and catches her wayward husband. Next up is a trip to the divorce court. But Mabel can't stay mad at Fatty forever, and eventually they head for the altar a second time.