A Vitagraph comedy, 1919
Synopsis as available from the Library of Congress (many thanks to Rob Stone for providing the xeroxes!)
| Attracted by the odour of cooking, Larry follows the smell and comes
upon a stand where an Irish count is stealing the frankfurters and depositing
them upon a newspaper at one side. Larry catches them, puts them in his
hat. A cop attracted by the count's actions, sees Larry and searches him.
Larry manages to shove the hat about the side of the stand, but when he
goes to find it, it is empty, as he had not counted on the dog coming up
and helping himself.
Meanwhile the count's friend has been getting a square meal at a swell cafe, manages to get away without paying for it and discloses the fact to his friend. Larry after being chased by the suspicious cop, overhears the two friends talking. The friend decides to take a chance, and Larry follows. The friend makes an easy entrance, is given all attention. Larry finds it hard to enter, but once in, is treated likewise. Just before Larry begins to eat, the friend's ruse is discovered, and he is beaten up by the head waiter. Larry becoming nervous upon seeing this, begins to find fault with the food, but is told he will have to pay for it anyway. He is in a sad predicament when presented with the bill and his escape blocked. The head waiter is about to use force, when the cashier, taking pity on Larry, pays the bill and gives him good advice to get a position and be a man. |
Larry goes to an employment agency. The head waiter is fired by the proprietor - and he calls all the other waiters out, and they strike. The agency is appealed to and Larry and seven others are sent to fill their places. The strikers beat up the seven, but when it comes to Larry 's turn - he turns the tables, beats up the strikers and takes the head waiter's place.