Another delightful Charley Chase short that starts out with Charley in Paris, 20 years after the Great War, singing 'Madamoiselle from Armentieres'. continues with him joining the Foreign Legion to avoid paying a bar bill and winds up with him caught in an Arabian harem. Although it's not a tightly constructed work, like THE NICKEL NURSER, the jokes come through at a good clip, and it's always fun to hear Mr. Chase sing.
The Legion section is very funny as Charley cluelessly mugs his way through the dessert.
Charley Chase, despite the fact he always turned out a good short subject, has largely disappeared from the public consciousness. He was never as big as Roach's superstars, Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy; he never broke out of short subjects; and he died in 1940. Still, his work is starting to turn up regularly in places where people look for stuff like this, at comedy festivals and on TCM and perhaps he is in for a major revival. You could do a lot worse.