London’s Clubs & Cabarets: The Metropole Midnight Follies

Series

Series Name: Eve And Everybody’s Film Review

Issue

Issue No.

249

Date Released

11 Mar 1926

Length of issue (in feet)

970

Stories in this Issue:

Story

Story No. within this Issue

3 / 4

Section Title

London’s Clubs & Cabarets

Summary

Pathe Intertitles - "Dancing time - with Jay Whidden’s melody makers to lure the dancers on -"
"But, now it’s time for "Follyland," the first number -"
""Waiting for you" they called this one -"
"In "The Waiter and the Guest" Bobby Howes and Tim O’Connor wait for no one."
"Dashing Vera Bryer, after singing about "a little bit of trouble" gave our camera no trouble at all - it was a pleasure -!"
"Especially when Vera repeated the dance for our "slow" camera -"
"Estelle Brody and Rupert Rogers were fast workers in the next -"
"And "Pompadour" brought home the beauty and grace of long past days -"
"Just then they persuaded Tex McLeod to spin a few yarns - and a rope -"
"Eve Tex himself, however, can’t spin a rope like our "slow motion" camera can -"
"Then Tim O’Connor gave us "Just a dance". (It seemed more like a hurricane!)"
"Elsie Percival gave an impression of Hal Sherman - (feet as well!)"
"And dainty Edna Maude danced a whirlwind "Charleston" on her toes -"
"And so to the Follies’ Finale -"

Researcher Comments

A handwritten shot list is present in the Pathe boxfile.

Keywords

Performing arts

Written sources

Pathe Inventory File Tin No.51
D. Gifford ‘Entertainers in British Films’ (Westport, 1998) p164.
Pathe Eve 246-280 Boxfile Issue sheet

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Production Co.: British Pathe Ltd.

Length of story (in feet)

480

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