Miss Soapsuds

Fräulein Seifenschaum is a German silent film by Ernst Lubitsch from 1915 It is considered Lubitschs first directorial work and is one of the directors lost works With the outbreak of World War I all the men including the barbers are drafted As a result the women have to take over their work and so mother and daughter share the work in a barbers shop the daughter soaps the customers while the mother then more or less skilfully shaves the men A customer named Ernst also wants to be shaved He makes eyes at the daughter and is resolutely thrown out of the shop by his mother Ernst flees with his great love in the car and is followed by his mother on foot and finally on a tricycle