Short Shots from "Sons o’ Guns", the Musical play at the Hippodrome, London.

Series

Series Name

Eve And Everybody’s Film Review

Issue

Issue No.

476

Date Released

17 Jul 1930

Length of issue (in feet)

1016

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1"Pep!"
2. 2Berlin’s Heat Dodgers
3. 3"Pans and Tams". A Pathecolor Mode.
4. 4"Shies and Shes"
5. 5A Love Nest. This shows how a poor fish is often a very good husband!
6. 6Short Shots from "Sons o’ Guns", the Musical play at the Hippodrome, London.

Story

Story No. within this Issue

6 / 6

Summary

NoS synopsis: "How to get your weight down! Bobby Howes and Robert Hale try their method -" Bobby Howes and Robert Hale do a comedy routine based on weight loss. A slimming machine is used (one where a belt is put around a man’s waist and it vibrates). The belt is then put around his neck for comic effect. When he emerges from the machine he is still shaking. He tries to drink a glass of liquid but he has the shakes. "Fast Footers" - Bernice (Rosie Moran) and the girls put their best foot forward -" M/S of a line of chorus girls in a kind of uniform with long boots do a dance routine. L/S of them doing a high kick routine then standing to attention and saluting. M/S of a dancer performing an acrobatic routine involving gymnastics. "The old Army game! Bobby Howes is just a little trying to the Sergeant!" Robert Hale and Bobby Howes do a military sketch. Routine revolves around Bobby’s incompetence during basic drills.

Keywords

Performing arts

Locations

London; England

Footage sources

Pathe

Written sources

Pathe Inventory File   Tin No.192
British Pathe Database 1997   Reference No.EP192
D. Gifford ‘Entertainers in British Films’ (Westport, 1998)   p122.
Pathe Eve 473-493 Boxfile   Commentary script

Credits:

Production Co.

British Pathe Ltd.

Length of story (in feet)

231

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Film Archive

Name

British Film Institute (BFI)

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Notes

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Name

British Pathe Ltd

Email

info@britishpathe.com

Web

https://www.britishpathe.com/

Phone

0207 665 8340

Address

3.29 Canterbury Court
1-3 Brixton Road
London
SW9 6DE

Notes

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