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How the 'Duke of Leisure' Reached His Winter Home

How the 'Duke of Leisure' Reached His Winter Home

NR 1912 · 6 min · ★ 7.0 · Comedy

Percival, a master-mind in the army of the deliberately unemployed, visits a fashionable restaurant and piles up a large meal by impertinent orders, but, before he gets a chance to eat he is detected and thrown out. He breaks a store window and so loudly proclaims his guilt that the police do not believe him.

Directed by Charles H. France · Written by Leon Golding

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