Chaplin's early works were more over the top than later works. But you have to remember that these were watched with a live piano player on a small screen in an old time vaudeville theater at first. Had to be very over the top. As the genre grew over the the next 2 decades so did Chaplin, his Tramp and the whole presentation. He rightfully saw movies as the end of vaudeville and talkies as the end of the over the top antics needed to tell a story that made silent films.

The interesting part is how he used makeup on certain characters to emphasize certain qualities to the character. The over the top eyebrows and dark eye shadows to show lesser moral character. This being one of his earliest works he was still developing the Tramp and it's a bit of a contrast to the movie "The Kid".

Also, early on no one would've dreamed of falling in pretend or on person on a woman, so much like vaudeville, here he has a man playing a woman.