Rips and Rushes

Rips and Rushes (1917)

Comedy

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.

Director: Larry Semon

Casts

	Hughie Mack as Vernon Rastle
	Jimmy Aubrey as His Lordship
	Alice Mann as Girlie
	John Costello as Girlie's Old Man
	Earl Montgomery as
	Pietro Aramondo as
	Murray Simberg as
	Eddie Dunn as
	Joe Rock as
	Ann Brody as Italian woman

Crew