Percy Gets a Job

Percy Gets a Job is a 1912 Australian comedy short film starring W.S. Percy, Australias greatest comedian.

Percy travels from Sydney to New York. He is thrown out of a cinema, fights astone actor for the privilege of playing the part of an attractive young ladys younger brother, treats a young girl to a plate og spaghetti in a tango restaurant, argues with her infuriated husband, is fleeced of every penny by race course crooks and has to work his way home as a steward. At the end he leans over the side of the vessel and says Im just crazy about America, but oh I love AustraliaPercy had left Australia for the US at the end of 1913. In February 1914 he arrived in New York and met Millard Johnson, the local representative of Union Theatres, who suggested he visit the Thanhouser Film Company Studio. They suggested Percy star in a comedy for the studio, and a scenario was written in twenty minutes. ........

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