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A Short dance duet from "Puss Puss"

Series

Series Name
Around The Town

Issue

Issue No.
88
Date Released
4 Aug 1921
Length of issue (in feet)
750
Stories in this Issue:
  1. 1Yesterday and to-day No.1
  2. 2In the Studio of the Hon. Neville Lytton
  3. 3A few moments with Alice Brady.
  4. 4Pheasant Rearing. Taken at the East Essex Game Farm
  5. 5Some Novelty Sunshades -
  6. 6Proverb Competition: This Cartoon No.10 represents a well-known Proverb, and is the last of the Competition.
  7. 7A Short dance duet from "Puss Puss"
  8. 8The latest fashionable pet. The Mongoose

Story

Story No. within this Issue
7 / 8
Summary
Summary - Joyce Barbour and Clay Smith in a dance from "Puss Puss"
NoS synopsis: ‘A Short dance duet from "Puss Puss" - Vaudeville Theatre by Joyce Barbour and Clay Smith’ intertitle with a cartoon of a man and woman. Elaborate Japanese-style background. Barbour and Smith enter, in evening dress. They take hands and dance side by side facing the camera.
Keywords
Music and dance
Written sources
Kinematograph Weekly   28 July 1921, p33.
The Bioscope   11 August 1921, p52.
Viewing Copy - bfi   Used for Synopsis
D. Gifford ‘Entertainers in British Films’ (Westport, 1998)   p14.
Credits:
Production Co.
Around the Town Ltd.
Length of story (in feet)
35

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