A Peep at "Palladium Pleasures", London

Series

Series Name: Eve And Everybody’s Film Review

Issue

Issue No.

252

Date Released

1 Apr 1926

Length of issue (in feet)

910

Stories in this Issue:

Story

Story No. within this Issue

3 / 6

Summary

NoS Summary - Toots Pounds, Billy Merson and George Clarke at the Palladium Theatre.
NoS synopsis: Large number of chorus girls march on stage of the Palladium Theatre in the revue "Palladium Pleasures." The girls carry spears or staffs and have spangly outfits. "George Clarke has a little difficulty with a lift -". George Clarke tries to get into a hotel lift with a large number of packages. The lift moves up with his packages inside but not him. Then he gets his foot stuck under the lift. More funny business with the lift and his packages. "A living painting from Spain - Valecia [Valencia?] - (and Toots Pounds.)" reads an intertitle. A woman grandly dressed makes her way down a set of stairs on stage. The scene is shown within a picture frame device. The grand lady’s dress has several long trains which are held by pages as she walks. "Billy Merson and George Clarke dance a quaint mixture in "Umbrellas and Ice Cream."" This involves a Pat-a-cake sequence and a slap round the chops for each of them. They kick each others’ bottoms then fall on the floor.

Researcher Comments

British Pathe - Produced by Harry Day, costumes designed by Georges Criscuolo.
A short handwritten shot list is present in the Pathe boxfile.

Keywords

Performing arts

Written sources

Pathe Inventory File Tin No.88
British Pathe Database 1997 Reference No.EP088
D. Gifford ‘Entertainers in British Films’ (Westport, 1998) p43.
Pathe Eve 246-280 Boxfile Issue sheet
National Film Archive Catalogue

Credits:

Production Co.: British Pathe Ltd.

Length of story (in feet)

200

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