Max Linder in Troubles of a grass widower

Film 1 Pathé comedy with Max Linder and Gabrielle Lange (orig. title: "Max reprend sa liberté", 1912) Max quarrels so with his wife that the lady leaves him. Our hero then attempts to do his own cooking, etc. He buys a fowl, but it proves to be still alive, and after he has chased it with a revolver, partly plucked it, shaved and finally half-roasted it, the bird is still alive and wings its way off. Max next turns his attention to blacking his boots, upsets the liquid blacking, spoons it up, and a minute later is using the same spoon to stir the broth. He writes for his wife to return home, but soon after sending the letter hears he is heir to a large fortune, and lives in the seventh heaven of delight - until his wife returns. (The Bioscope, Feb. 15, 1912) Film 2 Pathé comedy with Max Linder (orig. title: "Vive la vie de garçon", 1908) 'Hurrah for Bachelorhood' begins with a tiff between a married couple, ending in the wife putting on her hat and cloak and going home to her mother. The husband apparently is rather pleased than otherwise and prepares to thoroughly enjoy the unfamiliar freedom of a single existence, but he soon arrives at the conclusion that the wedded state has its advantages after all. As he is returning from a shopping expedition laden with a chicken and a large bundle of vegetables, he meets a lady friend and drops the chicken in his eagerness to greet her. An urchin picks up the lard and the man runs after him. Further trials befall him and when his wife, acting on the advice of her mother, once more comes home, he is quite ready to make it up. (Kinematograph and Lantern Weekly, Apr. 9, 1908)