This ciné-vaudeville parodies the reception of the crime series Les Vampires and can be seen as a comically veiled commercial for the novelization of the series. Moralists argued that the series was a school of crime and the police felt ridiculed by how it was depicted in it. Feuillade jokingly commented on such views by having Musidora play a (nameless) young woman inspired by the story’s criminal heroes to incite a boring admirer of hers to scheming and burgling – with which the filmmaker and writer of the series likewise picked up the popular reading that the female gangster was the actual instigator of the gang. Musidora renders her character comical through subtle exaggeration, primarily using her face and her eyes to express views and intentions. In this way, she solicited complicity from the audience with her role in the story and concurrently offered an ironic comment on the role of the female criminal for which she had become famous.